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I already replaced the harddrive and reinstalled all of the needed software. Now just trying to get as much things out as possible, but that one file had priority, because it had all of the sent/received/saved filed and their attachments. 

 

I can still boot into the OS and look up older messages from the other disc if I REALLY have to by USB, but this is not a long term solution, sadly.

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Okay, so something bad happened to my laptop's HDD. I noticed a severe degradation in performance over the last few weeks and at some point during use the computer began to reboot. I did what a friend of mine suggested and scanned my drive and, no surprise there, after almost 35k hours uptime, it failed.

 

I have currently torn apart one of my external HDDs in order to use the adapter to connect the drive to my laptop via USB so that I can try and recover as much data as possible. The biggest problem now is a certain 6GB large file of Outlook information I would need to keep due to work-related material.

 

Sadly, it seems like it is on the damaged part of the drive. I tried backing it up on a flashdrive when I was still using the HDD, it failed writing. Tried burning onto a disk, same result. Tried to copy it to a different location, again, fail.

No surprise, even after hooking it up through USB, I still cannot get that file.

 

I cannot say I have much experience in borked HDDs. Any tips?

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sounds fucked to me.

the spot where that file is may be etched away from the header scraping the platter. there's no way to fix that.

 

also, you avatar makes me LOL everytyme

 

if the HDD was clicking you could try putting it in a fridge to unstick the headers, but if the computer recognizes the drive it's probably just corrupt.

you MIGHT me able to defrag and see if it can reassemble the lost parts with good guesses.

 

IDK man, could just be in need of a defrag.

 

Okay, Any tips?

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put it in the freezer for 2hours

only works for stuck headers. not scratched platters.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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you're going to have to pay for a data recovery service

its not guaranteed that they can get it back, but if they can, its gonna cost a lot of money

at least $1k

 

if they cant, you can always try forensics if its that important to you

that will be the last possible resort, and will cost several tens of thousands of dollars

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could also get the hard drive fix, can be done

you cant just "fix" a bad sector on a hard drive

unless you replace the platter

 

but OP wants to get the DATA back, not the HARD DRIVE back

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I already replaced the harddrive and reinstalled all of the needed software. Now just trying to get as much things out as possible, but that one file had priority, because it had all of the sent/received/saved filed and their attachments. 

 

I can still boot into the OS and look up older messages from the other disc if I REALLY have to by USB, but this is not a long term solution, sadly.

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2018 Intel i7-8700k @4.2ghz | ROG GTX 1070 | 16GB Adata @2400 | Asus ROG STRIX Z370-H

 

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I already replaced the harddrive and reinstalled all of the needed software. Now just trying to get as much things out as possible, but that one file had priority, because it had all of the sent/received/saved filed and their attachments. 

 

I can still boot into the OS and look up older messages from the other disc if I REALLY have to by USB, but this is not a long term solution, sadly.

Try booting linux off a USB and seeing if that will let you copy the data off, its worked for me before

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