Help to recover data from my laptop's HDD partition's gone RAW from NTFS

[507OmaR]

Hi, I am new on the sub and I have been trying to learn how to solve this.

 

I just got on Sunday night, the main primary partition of my daily use laptop crashed after the computer froze and I had to force shut it off with the power button. The partition is now, according to windows disk manager, in RAW but in photorec it shows as NTFS.

 

I have been trying to use all partition managers and data recovery programs to try to extract the data because I need to recover my university homeworks. All my personal data is in another logical partition I use as a backup, which later also became RAW. I just forgot to make copies and backups while doing my homeworks and I really need to retrieve them. Trying to transform the partition back to NTFS with chkdsk didn't work also.

 

Which is the first step of diagnostics which I need to do for you to be able to help me? I need help, asap, please and thanks a lot.

I want to convert the RAW partition back to NTFS so I could get the data back and format it, or just extract the data with any of the specialized programs but they keep crashing while in the long process of scanning the partitions.

 

I have been using all possible data recovery programs: EaseUS Partition Master and EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard, Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery, GetDataBack for NTFS, Disk Drill, MiniTool Power Data Recovery and Partition Wizard. They all freeze when reading the disk, loading the disk information and almost never finish to load it up. The disk is in an external USB 2 enclosure and I am using a small 80 GB spare backup HDD inside the laptop. Only with Minitool, I was able to do a successful scan that lasted 4 days in the 100 GB partition but crashed when copying the data from the partition to the backup drive (some 6 GB of personal data that I wanted and needed back, as the rest of the 100 GB partition is just the old OS, programs and etc.)

 

Also the RAW partitions are so slow to access with a usb connection. Would it be a good option to quick format the partitions to NTFS and then recover the deleted data with any of those data recovery programs like recuva or testdisk/photorec that can retrieve deleted data?

 

https://imgur.com/a/0p1Mtyr

https://imgur.com/a/zQlBfB9

[Electronics Wizardy]

First thing, make a image, don't try to touch the existing drive, this will only make it worse. Id use ddrescue

 

The crashing and failing of programs shows it might be a bad disk, what does smart data show?

 

Don't format the drive, it will only make it worse, try that after the image has been made.

[507OmaR]

14 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

First thing, make a image, don't try to touch the existing drive, this will only make it worse. Id use ddrescue

 

The crashing and failing of programs shows it might be a bad disk, what does smart data show?

 

Don't format the drive, it will only make it worse, try that after the image has been made.

https://imgur.com/a/zQlBfB9

 

smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-win7-sp1] (sf-7.0-1)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Scorpio Blue Serial ATA (AF)
Device Model: WDC WD6400BPVT-80HXZT3
Serial Number: WD-WXL1A61W2831
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 6ac27a29b
Firmware Version: 01.01A01
User Capacity: 640,135,028,736 bytes [640 GB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is: Tue Oct 15 22:49:52 2019 RST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
AAM feature is: Unavailable
APM level is: 96 (intermediate level with standby)
Rd look-ahead is: Enabled
Write cache is: Enabled
DSN feature is: Unavailable
ATA Security is: Disabled, NOT FROZEN [SEC1]

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (15900) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 156) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x7035) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
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ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAGS VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE
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3 Spin_Up_Time POS--K 174 171 021 - 2266
4 Start_Stop_Count -O--CK 001 001 000 - 117934
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct PO--CK 196 196 140 - 34
7 Seek_Error_Rate -OSR-K 001 001 000 - 334487
9 Power_On_Hours -O--CK 051 051 000 - 36077
10 Spin_Retry_Count -O--CK 100 100 000 - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count -O--CK 100 100 000 - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count -O--CK 097 097 000 - 3315
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192 Power-Off_Retract_Count -O--CK 200 200 000 - 629
193 Load_Cycle_Count -O--CK 001 001 000 - 2975337
194 Temperature_Celsius -O---K 109 092 000 - 38
196 Reallocated_Event_Count -O--CK 170 170 000 - 30
197 Current_Pending_Sector -O--CK 194 194 000 - 691
198 Offline_Uncorrectable ----CK 100 253 000 - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count -O--CK 200 200 000 - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate ---R-- 100 253 000 - 0
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|||||__ C event count
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ATA_READ_LOG_EXT (addr=0x00:0x00, page=0, n=1) failed: 48-bit ATA commands not implemented [JMicron]
Read GP Log Directory failed

SMART Log Directory Version 1 [multi-sector log support]
Address Access R/W Size Description
0x00 SL R/O 1 Log Directory
0x01 SL R/O 1 Summary SMART error log
0x02 SL R/O 5 Comprehensive SMART error log
0x06 SL R/O 1 SMART self-test log
0x09 SL R/W 1 Selective self-test log
0x80-0x9f SL R/W 16 Host vendor specific log
0xa0-0xa7 SL VS 16 Device vendor specific log
0xa8-0xb7 SL VS 1 Device vendor specific log
0xc0 SL VS 1 Device vendor specific log
0xe0 SL R/W 1 SCT Command/Status
0xe1 SL R/W 1 SCT Data Transfer

SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log (GP Log 0x03) not supported

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Extended Self-test Log (GP Log 0x07) not supported

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
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2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
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After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

SCT Status Version: 3
SCT Version (vendor specific): 258 (0x0102)
Device State: Active (0)
Current Temperature: 37 Celsius
Power Cycle Min/Max Temperature: 37/40 Celsius
Lifetime Min/Max Temperature: 25/55 Celsius
Under/Over Temperature Limit Count: 0/0
Vendor specific:
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SCT Temperature History Version: 2
Temperature Sampling Period: 1 minute
Temperature Logging Interval: 1 minute
Min/Max recommended Temperature: 0/60 Celsius
Min/Max Temperature Limit: -41/85 Celsius
Temperature History Size (Index): 128 (56)

Index Estimated Time Temperature Celsius
57 2019-10-15 20:43 30 ***********
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36 2019-10-15 22:30 30 ***********
37 2019-10-15 22:31 ? -
38 2019-10-15 22:32 30 ***********
39 2019-10-15 22:33 30 ***********
40 2019-10-15 22:34 30 ***********
41 2019-10-15 22:35 31 ************
42 2019-10-15 22:36 ? -
43 2019-10-15 22:37 33 **************
44 2019-10-15 22:38 ? -
45 2019-10-15 22:39 33 **************
46 2019-10-15 22:40 ? -
47 2019-10-15 22:41 33 **************
48 2019-10-15 22:42 ? -
49 2019-10-15 22:43 36 *****************
... ..( 3 skipped). .. *****************
53 2019-10-15 22:47 36 *****************
54 2019-10-15 22:48 ? -
55 2019-10-15 22:49 40 *********************
56 2019-10-15 22:50 37 ******************

SCT Error Recovery Control command not supported

Device Statistics (GP/SMART Log 0x04) not supported

ATA_READ_LOG_EXT (addr=0x11:0x00, page=0, n=1) failed: 48-bit ATA commands not implemented [JMicron]
Read SATA Phy Event Counters failed

[Electronics Wizardy]

6 minutes ago, 507OmaR said:

https://imgur.com/a/zQlBfB9

so that drive does have some offline uncorrectable sectors, so that would explain some of the issues you have been having.

 

Make an image with ddrescue first.

[507OmaR]

15 hours ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

First thing, make a image, don't try to touch the existing drive, this will only make it worse. Id use ddrescue

 

The crashing and failing of programs shows it might be a bad disk, what does smart data show?

 

Don't format the drive, it will only make it worse, try that after the image has been made.

WDC WD6400BPVT-80HXZT3-WD-WXL1A61W2831-SMART.txt

[Electronics Wizardy]

12 minutes ago, 507OmaR said:

WDC WD6400BPVT-80HXZT3-WD-WXL1A61W2831-SMART.txt 1.33 kB · 1 download

Yea this drive has issues, did you make an image?