Drive Failure - Data recovery help needed!

[cyphon21]

I have a fairly new but out of warranty, 3TB Seagate drive that's failing on me. It was recently added to an enclosure and that has caused it to heat up too much I think, causing it to now be recognized. I moved the drive into my main PC which is cooler, and it came back to life.

 

This is a drive used only for TV shows at the moment and is about 2TB filled.

 

I have windows recognizing the drive, but when I went to transfer some shows last night it would work for 10-15 seconds, and then go to dead, then come back a few minutes later and kept repeating until done. So as you can imagine, this took forever to do one show. I left it all on last night and now the main folder shows TV, but the sub folders are all gone! Windows recognizes the drive still and does still show data on it. 

 

I tried to use an external enclosure, but it was showing Healthy GBT partition, and everywhere I looked said to format the drive, which I clearly don't want to do if I can help it.

 

I'm sourcing out some WD Red drives at the moment (which prices suck right now) and I want to try and get these shows on the other drives I have.

 

Any help is appreciated!

[Kyuubixchidori]

I have a fairly new but out of warranty, 3TB Seagate drive that's failing on me. It was recently added to an enclosure and that has caused it to heat up too much I think, causing it to now be recognized. I moved the drive into my main PC which is cooler, and it came back to life.

 

This is a drive used only for TV shows at the moment and is about 2TB filled.

 

I have windows recognizing the drive, but when I went to transfer some shows last night it would work for 10-15 seconds, and then go to dead, then come back a few minutes later and kept repeating until done. So as you can imagine, this took forever to do one show. I left it all on last night and now the main folder shows TV, but the sub folders are all gone! Windows recognizes the drive still and does still show data on it. 

 

I tried to use an external enclosure, but it was showing Healthy GBT partition, and everywhere I looked said to format the drive, which I clearly don't want to do if I can help it.

 

I'm sourcing out some WD Red drives at the moment (which prices suck right now) and I want to try and get these shows on the other drives I have.

 

Any help is appreciated!

throw it in the freezer in a bag to keep condensation off of it. worked for my bros hard drive that was clicking, you get a good 10 minutes of use out of it. LTT has a old video about it i believe.

 

 

*not at all liable for whatever happens

[NumLock21]

hook hdd back into the pc and run chkdsk

[cyphon21]

So I disconnected it and restarted, and I have somewhat normal speeds now. Currently transferring as many shows as I can at the moment. Will keep you posted!

 

Any repair tools once I'm done this I should try? I want to save the drive if I can. Once everything is off of it, I'm sure I can run better tests.

[NumLock21]

Could be a faulty sata power and data cable. change those and see if that does anything, Run seagate diagnostic to check for hdd errors.

[cyphon21]

Could be a faulty sata power and data cable. change those and see if that does anything, Run seagate diagnostic to check for hdd errors.

 

So I switched SATA ports earlier. Had the same issues. Unplugged it, and replugged it back in and now I get normal speeds on almost all episodes except a few handful ones. 

 

I'm going to run Seagate Diag after I have the crucial ones all transferred

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Seagate 3TB? It's not an ST3000DM001, is it? If it is, recover the data and throw it away. Don't even bother fixing it.

[cyphon21]

Seagate 3TB? It's not an ST3000DM001, is it? If it is, recover the data and throw it away. Don't even bother fixing it.

 

I think it is! I pulled this from an external I believe years ago. No wonder it was so cheap. I will "try" to fix it, but I won't be wasting my time that much to do it.

 

I'm having a mini heart attack trying to get prices on WD reds. Do I really need them? I have a guy locally selling the 4TB greens for a nice price, I could buy 2 for the price of one red almost. So I was thinking of doing that, even though these are for media storage accessed by Plex once in a while.