Hi all and thank you in advance for your suggestions and aid.

Some months ago my laptop dropped down on the floor when it is running. It doesn't starts anymore, so I open it and extract the HD (WD5000LPVX).
I used various tool in order to attempt rescuing some data. The most effective I found is gnu ddrescue.

DDrescue can copy the raw data, but the speed is very slow. The rate is between 27000 B/s and 45000 B/s. It takes 5-6 months for rescue the whole disk (500 GB).

I tried to change many ddrescue parameters and I tried to change hdparm flag and settings in the hope of increase the rate.
The rate remaining substantially the same. So I suppose that the problem is some aligning issue caused by the drop.

Someone can suggest some software, procedure or tips?

Thank you very much.
francesco

Send it to a professional data recovery lab that who will be able to safely diagnose and correct the point of failure.

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Recovery Force Data Recovery

if you kept using software on such hdd case (particulary dropped drives ) , i doubt that you will ever see your data again unless u r willing to pay extra $$$ is best scenarios ..

i am working on a similar case , where case was recoverable , and thanks to softwares and the owner faith in getting his data for free , now the case is unrecoverable ..

Thank you very much for yours advices.
HD content isn't very important data so I'm not interested in a professional rescue service.
Indeed I'm very curious about this field and I want try to rescue data as much as possible.

Until now I've rescued about 30Gb of not consecutive data.
I would like to try another strategy:
-reading the master file allocation table
-rescue only interesting file sector by sector

Is it possible? It is a feasible strategy.

Thank you for the support.
francesco

many tools do this:
r-studio
GetDataBack
dmde

but the more you read the drive the more damage it will do if there is any damage already in there ata all

Thank you very much HaQue!

I can see all files in the drive and I can rescue only needed files whit evaluation/demo version of dmde and r-studio (with some limitation).

It takes a while but I don't need to rescue the whole disk.

Are there some free tools similar to dmde and r-studio (preferably on Linux)?


Thank you again

Here is a Windows tool for recovering files with bad blocks.

Bad Block Copy for Windows:
http://alter.org.ua/soft/win/bb_recover/

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If Linux OS is the point, then try UFS Explorer, three of its editions are available for Linux: http://www.ufsexplorer.com/download.php?prod=sr&os=lin

You can also fully test it in shareware mode and personal license e.g. for Standard Recovery is 40 Eur.

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