Please help my 160gb maxtor drive has failed and in windows CHKDSK about 30% of sectors show as unreadable the disk contains all the family photo's so the data is valuable....

i have run diagnostic software and they either fail or it says it would take 1000's of hrs to complete repair cycle
also drive reports temp of over 80 deg c even when cold
so i think my best option is to copy everything to a new drive which i have and then try the repair
can someone recomend software that would copy as best it could the whole drive to another without stopping on errors
i need to get it right first time as i am thinking of freezing the drive
i have looked on google and cant find anything that fits my needs...!
so i thought i would ask the experts (thats you )
Thanks in advance for any replies
Rob Morby
(MorbiouS)

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DON'T freeze the drive! Please.

You can try ddrescue in Linux to mirror your drive. But, if your data is valuable to you at all, send it to pcimage for a diagnostic first. If his price is too high, then continue to try your own things. If you use data recovery as a last option, you will most certainly find that you will be paying a lot more for to get your data back.

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Luke
Recovery Force Data Recovery

Should be not too expensive right now, if you don't tamper with it any more.

If you kill the drive completely expect a cost of 10x what it would be now, these are hideous drives IMHO.

As Luke says DO NOT FREEZE IT.

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