Right now i dnt have an extra hard disk drive....

please suggest me....

Sorry but you'll need to search the internet etc for a DOS based disk editor

Once you have read the first sector on the disk, post the data here

http://softdm.com/download.html

i found a DM Disk Editor and Data Recovery freeware will this help in editing....

and if i put disk editor on usb then can i run it form MHDD bootable cd or ll MHDD bootable cd detect usb drive and its files...

Why not contact Amarbir , he can most likely recover your
data and repair you filesystem

sorry there is some typing mistake ... i dnt have any extra hard disk drive....


and now again i feel that the problem is come to same position ....

now i have Disk editor software ... but how i ll boot from cd... because MHDD bootable cd not gives the provision to work with usb drive...
so for running Disk editor software i need a bootable media which gives me command prompt and also detect my damaged drive like MHDD detect... for Edit disk in Hex form....

suggest me what next now.....

you should not edit the original drive, it is possible that you
will only make matters worse.

jsingh,

good, now you MUST find an extra hard drive and make a copy of the drive.

Do nothing else, make a copy, please we want you to get your data, which you said was important.

.......
im not able to get 80gb hdd... so if i purchase a new hdd of 320gb. then ll it help me in this section... and is that new hdd ll be safe... because when we clone a disk to disk then it made it same to the same (source and destination)

xsoliman as you saying use a DOS based disk editor... then after that ll i need a new disk for cloning ... but im still finding the way to boot form cd that support damaged hdd and with hex editor ....

and when i was find hex editor then i found a seatools for dos and windows.... there is a option Erase Track 0 ll this help to remove first sector and 63rd sector as xsoliman sayz

**********************************************************************
Erase Drive
-----------
ZERO FILL DATA PATTERN WRITING IS A DATA DESTRUCTIVE OPERATION
EQUIVALENT TO ERASING THE DATA OFF THE DRIVE.

Seagate is not responsible for lost user data. Erase Drive is
available for Seagate or Maxtor drives only.

Three choices are available under this section:
Erase Track 0. Use this to clear out an old operating
system installation. Very quick.
Zero ALL. This command writes zeros to every sector on the
hard drive. This test may take several hours to complete.
Timed Fill. Using the time value set under the T selection,
the drive will erase sectors for that time duration.
Set the number of seconds to run. Press T to raise the
number.
FDE Crypto Erase. If the drive is a Full Disk Encryption
model disk drive, then this option will be available.
You must be able to supply the appropriate password
or SID (printed on the drive's top label) to begin
the cryptographic erase.
**********************************************************************

and i also found a usb connector for external hdd... is that helpful

........

i connect my damage hdd with a running pc vista OS

it shows a icon in taskbar on right side ... installing after then it shows a icon of usb device connected

in Device Manager under usb serial bus controller shows usb mass storage device. but in my computer is shows nothing..

Spildit which command is used for writing to sector.... FF or TOF

FF ask for some kind of source filename

TOF ask for destination filename


please give me steps how i do this task..... coj i dnt want, any thing goes wrong....

erase is asking for
type start sector to write [0]: .....

now wht i ll enter there

i enter 0

now asking for end sector [156295278]

wht i enter thr

can i erase 0 to 100 sectors... will it be fine ... or that much create problem

please tel me .. so i ll start erase process

now i deleted 0 to 10 ... i ll try to attach it with USB connector to my pc.... if there is no way to out then i ll give u the provision but my net speed is too much slow .. its very hard to operate my pc... last time i did it with my friend but the process is too slow like one click of mouse takes 4 min....

the problem is .. right now i have one laptop and one desktop pc(the damaged hdd pc) and from laptop's INTERNET im getting your help... so i was thinking for usb connection... but now usb too not showing the connected mass device....

i ll try to get some one pc and ll give u the output ....

i downloaded the iso and create a bootable cd of hiren....

now when we boot from cd there are 4 options

BOOT FROM HARD DRIVE
START BOOTCD
START MINI WINDOWS XP
WINDOWS MEMORY DIAGNOSTIC

i select START MINI WINDOWS XP. then it load some files FROM cd and my cpu's red light start little blinking... iT looks like it is trying to load files form my hard disk ... and after few min in processing of OS xp it shows me a xp desktop with some system program icons....

then i put a pen drive in usb port and install the restorer2000 pro and it shows my HDD without any extra info

then i start scanning of HDD

and it showing so many failed output.... and which software i ll use now in this os... coj there are so many windows/partition utilities .. suggest me else may be i ll do some wrong.....
which utility help to read my hdd data ....

i uploaded a snapshot please take a look

I think the problem , beside the HDD, is that the OP doesn't have either the basic skills or knowledge about filesystems, drive imaging and so on - just searching for a "magic wand" that does not exist or free help that is impossible. I think this thread will reach 5000 posts without finding a real solution : we don't know the physical status of the HDD neither the logical , AND the problems started because power was cut DURING A CRITICAL OPERATION LIKE UPDATING / RECALCULATION OF FS TABLES so the structure is in unknown or corrupted state. If I had the drive at hand I would have reconstructed BY HAND what went wrong - at first post I said to myself that this was more of a data reconstruction case than of a logical recovery.
If he's lucky, the FS need only to be reconstructed and fixed, and data will come back, maybe with some lost directory structure.
If not, only a pro can judge what to do (fix FS ? raw recovery ? try to find FS fragments and put the pieces together ? a combination of such methods ?) and what is no longer possible, as too many attempts and too many wrong things (one for all : working on the patient drive) done on the disk.
If data is really important (be honest !) , admit your limits and take it to a pro and have the job done (and pay for it)
If you cannot afford it, then continue at your own risk, or accept the loss of data.
Nothing more to say, sorry.

BlackST now i feel that u are only increasing your Posts numbers in these forums.....2650 and more and more..
2nd... from the bigging till now you not give me any bit help or not place any tip it mens u dnt know much
3rd... your are a -ve think person... even i think in your normal life u have -ve thought
4th....OP have less skills but a +mind to achive something
5th....not searching for any magic wand coj it is easy to pay not easy to earn money
6th....if this thread reach 5000 posts or more than 10000.. just tel me wht is going out from your pocket..
7th...in my area there is not professional in HDD ... i met so many person but no one have skill like that... and i found a person who is perfect in HDD recovery.. but that pro is far from me... abt 6 hr drive from my home to his shop and o hr drive bk to my home menz 12hr.. and may be he say left the hard disk to him, so he ll study it in free time.. then it menz i have to come bk home 6+6=12hr drive and when he say then again 12hr drive...and in this traveling 2000rs wll b spend and more over this is hard for me... coj my college ll not give me lev now dayz...
8th.... data is IMPORTANT... now i ll tel u wht is thr in.. my 7 yr projects and all my passwd and email of canadan immigration and documents and 3 research material is thr and all is 32GB....

So i knew that im taking a big risk ... but in the bigging i feel that it ll be easy for you ppls coj you are professionals but from your reply i rely disappointed now... you killed my power to achieve....

so dnt be sorry .. im sorry for wasting your important time....

and i thanks all those person who support me too much... i regard them form my core of the heart...
(Spildit,Steve,xsoliman) and these ppl have a willng power ... may GOD bless them except one person..

Spildit
Do you realize that you probably had made his problem worse and he is now perhaps totally screwed up, just by your "Charity"? You made him erased his first thousands of sectors on an unknown condition drive, without thinking seriously that what could be the coss and it's resolution. That was the worst charity you have ever made.

Jsingh
You have screwed your drive probably by DIY. Your drive previosly was reading sectors perfectly, as you mentioned in this post (tricky-partition-recovery-job-help-t12815.html#p84432). You can see for yourself, that at that time, there was not even a SINGLE bad sector.

And now, restorer pro is unable to read all sectors from the disk. This is probably due to your attempts to the drive, including that erasing attempt.

We all here are not for the discourage you, but certain problems may need to be handled by specialists, otherwise you may lose your valuable data (if it's valuable to you at all). People ship their drives to foreign countries for recovery, because in many cases, there is not a skilled professional in their entier nations. Thus, you are lucky in this case, that you have got a professional only at 6 hours distance. Though you have poked enough with it, but if you REALLY have a data worth more then 7 years and un-replacable information, you should immediatly stop playing with it, and take it to the professional, otherwise there will be a moment, when nobody on this earth will ever be able to get your data back.

Final note to spldit:
That was a very un-professional attitude this time buddy. You have tried this charity thingy many times, but if it didn't help, it never harmed either. But this time, do you even have a thought, that you probably have made him loose his precious information forever? Tell me, which DR professional is ever going to suggest/perform any kind of erasing/wiping operation on a drive with data?

This time, it really made me upset and sad to see someone loosing his hard worked information/data, which could be easily recovered and now probably is a disaster.

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So, did it happen?

As an another side note, do you also know that the CD and softwares you are pointing out on an open forum, is WAREZ, which is clearly against the forum rules?

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