Hdd failiure

[Luka95]

My HDD 4TB failed and now it is still shown in task manager as disk 9 but it doesnt have letter assigned and it isnt shown in "my computer".

I tryed changing sata cabel and port as well as power from ps but no luck there.

I clined it with cmd clean command but also no luck there.

I tryed a couple of programs for data recovery but nothing is found, just endless searching with no progress.

But am hoping that drive can be fixed. Hdd sentinel scaned the drive and sad that performanse is 100% but health is only 20% and there is 244 bad sectors.

If someone knows somethng help would be welcomed.

[manikyath]

4 minutes ago, Luka95 said:

there is 244 bad sectors.

you're trying to resurrect a corpse.

 

check with crystaldiskinfo, specificly "read error rate" and "seek error rate" will tell a lot about the chance of recovering anything. my hunch is that they'll be enormous figures.

[Luka95]

tnx for answer, so how do i do that, ctystal disk wont recognise hdd because there is no letter asigned..

[digiguy]

Testdisc 7 is the perfect utility for this kind of problems.

It will find whatever partition(s) and therefore files were on the drive.

Just put it on a recovery drive (or more than one if necessary).

Be careful this is not a GUI utility.

So read the info provided very carefully before selecting any option.

It has saved my bacon several times before.

 

Do not choose to repair or change anything on the drive with any other program

before using Testdisc. Chances of other so called recovery methods and applications

working are very slim.

Your best bet is just to get the files of the drives first.

And that's where Testdisc is at it best.