6TB WD RED now running at 100% and MBR looks fecked

[CRFC11]

So 5.5TB of data appears to be gone.

 

Problem is the drive is running at 100% so the recovery software(s) I have aren't able to run.

MBR looks to be corrupted as Windows can't view the disk storage at all.

Tried recovering the MBR but unable to write to the disk as it's at 100%.

 

Any ideas welcome.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Is the data important? If so send it off to data recovery for your best chances of getting data.

 

This feels like a hardware issue.

 

Id make a image of the disk with ddrescue first.

[CRFC11]

I mean it's 100% not 5.5TB of TV shows.....

The really annoying thing is the recovery software(s) can see all the files but can't pull them
 

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, CRFC11 said:

I mean it's 100% not 5.5TB of TV shows.....

The really annoying thing is the recovery software(s) can see all the files but can't pull them
 

Make a image first with ddrescue. Then recover data from the image. DDrescue is the best at getting data from a failing drive

[Bad5ector]

I agree with @Electronics Wizardy, if drive has data that is important, best to try and image the drive to another and try to do your work from there.

[CRFC11]

Whilst I appreciate the help honestly the software you recommended is a huge pain to get working.

 

Would something like Acronis not do the same?

[Kilrah]

Acronis like most of such software is meant to recover files form a perfectly working drive, just where stuff was deleted, drive was repartitioned/formatted by mistake...

It doesn't have anything special to deal with damaged hardware so with a faulty drive it'll get stuck almost forever retrying to read sectors that are damaged.

 

ddrescue is meant specifically for imaging faulty drives, will only try each block once on the first pass to allow for getting as much still good data as possible as quickly as possible (since the more time is spent with a damaged drive running the more it's likely the damage will worsen/the drive will die completely), then only after that retry the unreadable sectors more times in sequence.

 

It's on the drive image created by ddrescue that you'll run software like acronis, testdisk/photorec etc to try and recover the actual files once the faulty hardware isn't a problem anymore.