Re: Hard Drive Failure
- From: "paulmd@xxxxxxx" <paulmd@xxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 Nov 2006 20:36:39 -0800
jarrod.walton@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have been working on a PC where the hard drive has failed. I've
already informed the user of the very real possibility that all his
data could be lost, but I was wondering if anyone could point me in the
direction of any tools that I may be able to use to try to pull any
data at all from the disk. It looks to me that the file table has been
blown away, and most of the indexes have been lost. I have tried to
pull data by making the disk a slave and that has been unsuccessful.
So, at this point, I'm open to any suggestions or advice other than it
should've been backed up. :) Thanks in advance.
How dead is dead? That is, what failed?
If it's the controller card, you can find another, from the EXACT model
drive and controller card revision, and replace it. Delicate, but
doable. This is one you may want to leave to a professional data
recovery company if you're at all uncomfortable with it.
If it's bad sectors, clone the drive, and do chkdsk /r on the copy to
cure your file system difficulties.
One thing I've actually had work, was boot to the recovery console,
chkdsk /r until it got hung up trying to fix the damage around halfway
through, and then canceled the operation. I was then able to access
the drive as a secondary master (disconnected the cd) and recover all
but 1 or 2 documents.
If you got 1000 bad sectors in an a 80gb drive, that's a tiny fraction
of a percentage point lost. And chances are good you won't lose too
many data files. the Programs and OS can of course be reinstalled.
If it's a mechanical difficulty, it's professional data recovery time.
.
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