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Need some help :)

January 10th, 2016, 13:21

Greetings everyone,
A friend of mine, gave me his HDD because he broke his laptop and extracted it, the problem I am facing is :
The HDD has 3 partitions:
1. System Reserved Partition ( G: )
2. Partition were windows is located ( I: )
3. Partition with data ( K: )
I can access the data on on first 2 partitions, but the 3`rd one is in RAW state, the windows asks me to format it...
I tried using testdisk but didn`t succeed, maybe I was doing something wrong...
What can I do to restore the data?

https://i.gyazo.com/cf25282cb70667697254025fafb8e259.png

This is a image of the partitions, sorry for it being in Russian ...

Re: Need some help :)

January 10th, 2016, 21:22

Check SMART values. Have to identify whether the drive has a hardware problem, bad sectors, etc.

Re: Need some help :)

January 11th, 2016, 3:50

labtech wrote:Check SMART values. Have to identify whether the drive has a hardware problem, bad sectors, etc.

+1

try to clone the disk to another disk and than run data recovery software e.g DMDE or R-studio on the clone drive.

Re: Need some help :)

January 11th, 2016, 5:37

Guys this is what I have for SMART values :

https://gyazo.com/b37d45ed1db956e749cf5c110e106b4d

Re: Need some help :)

January 12th, 2016, 20:52

Drive has bad sectors. Now we need to know whether read-write mechanism is good.
Not easy to test without pro tools. With a little bit of knowledge we can get some idea.
Suggest testing drive with MHDD by running short partial scan tests. Or buy pro tools.

Re: Need some help :)

January 12th, 2016, 21:46

...or clone the drive using ddrescue and do a raw scan on the data partition of the clone with GetDataBack or similar.
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