Hi all,

I am new to this forum. After exhausting all my efforts I have joined this forum in hopes "Gurus" may be able to help me.

Here's the detail:

Purchased a NAS i-omega 1TB 5 years ago which was working fine up till now (24/7 continuous run).
Recently, I was able to access the drive so called i-omega (turns out they were not lenovo) they told me no warrnty no support.
Read on the post that the shell may be bad and to open the shell and attach the drive directly using USB (SATA) adapter (bought from Amazon).
After connecting the adapter to Seagate barracuda 7200.12 to win 8.1 - error message popped up claiming "windows can't find the driver".
Went to Seagate website downloaded "seatools' and installed. after a few refreshes, the tool was able to see the drive with its s/n and firmware version.
tried running "short drive self test" which quickly failed - tried running "short generic" in which inner scan passed and inner scan passed - tried running "long term scan" which failed after 4 hours when the green bar was in the middle.
found out about Seagate recovery tool. which recognized the drive with 3 of its partitions.
selected the root and ran the scan for recovery but the five minutes into scan got a message "it's taking too long to scan" retry, ignore, tried both but at the end got a message "no partitions found"
At this point I am lost and need advise what to do.
Please help.
Regards,

IMHO this needs professional hardware tools to recover, like DDI or PC3K.

I think heads are weak or dying. IF heads survive the imaging process with the above tools, then it shouldn't be too expensive to recover using some decent recovery service. But if heads die, then that's another story.

I suggest you contact Jon at http://www.datasaversllc.com/ . They're in Atlanta, not too far away from you.

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