HDD GURU FORUMS

Good day guys

Im in desperate need of some advice / help.

My hard drive crashed tonight, everything was fine in HD sentinel..health was good, no bad sectors etc...or noticable issues of any kind.

Shut down before load shedding , and when turned back on it was stuffed.
It booted into Windows one last time after that, and tried to do a Repair disk (chkdsk i recon)
but didn't finish and when rebooted it was stuffed.

I booted from another other drive, and in disk manager it states healthy partition, even shows free space left etc. which is still the same it was before crash.

But when try to explore and browse the drive it says " corrupt or unreadable"

When i try to boot from it, it sometimes comes as far as the login screen..but just gets stuck and hangs on a black screen.

Tried different cables, checking and making sure sata cables were properely connected, to no avail.
Some people recommended i run chkdsk /f again to see if it fixes it...but im scared to go this route since i know it can sometimes create a lot of CHK files, which in the end of the day is useless...

Please if someone knows how one can fix this, or of some tools, data rec. companies as a last resort to retrieve the data and rescue the disk, i will be eternally greatfull, im desperate here...dont wanna lose 500gigs of data, was my main drive ...almost everything i have was on that drive, im going out of my mind here, my world just ended to speak.

I got some quotes from Data recovery places, but it is daaaamn expensive.

Thanks for reading, and in advance.

Cheers

Did you ask Nick @southbit? Give him a call, his prices are very very reasonable and I'm sure he will be able to help you. http://www.southbit.co.za/

Hi

I have yes, he gave me a quote. He is very reasonable yes, but still recovery it is expensive.
But guess one can't put a price on precious data.

Your best DIY option would be to clone your drive, sector by sector, with a tool (eg ddrescue freeware) that understands how to deal with bad media/heads. Then run data recovery software against the clone. Avoid CHKDSK -- it will only make problems worse.

Depending on the model, there may be things you could do to improve your chances of recovery.

It is only if you drive has physical errors that you need to send it to a Data recovery service,
Once you install the software to your computer, you can perform data recovery through the following steps.
1.when you successfully install the software on your computer, launch the software and go to the right recovery module.
2. select the hard drive you need to recover and wait the software to scan for the lost data.
3. after scan you can preview found files and then recover them.

Hi,
There are no. of data recovery tools in the market.

you can buy any one through online but all of tools are not able to get your whole data back.

try to choose good one.

I'd just go the pro route and be done and done with it. There's a lot of unkowns here.