HDD Data Recovery

[DaveKerk]

Hi all,

 

One of my friends gave me an old laptop that has a bad hard drive in it. It is a 1 TB WD Blue 2.5". When I plug it into another computer it gives me ~180 GB readable. I ran it through HDD Regenerator and have had no luck fixing the bad sectors. Does anyone have any advice on how to fix this or is it just dead?

 

Thanks!

[Electronics Wizardy]

Do you want the data or do you want it fixed.

 

Your not fixing it.

 

For data, if you care about it, don't touch it and send it to a data recovery place, if you want to do this for run, make a image with ddrescue then use a program like photorec to get the files.

[DaveKerk]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Do you want the data or do you want it fixed.

 

Your not fixing it.

 

For data, if you care about it, don't touch it and send it to a data recovery place, if you want to do this for run, make a image with ddrescue then use a program like photorec to get the files.

Alright, thanks! I will have to ask if he does indeed want his data super bad.