Hdd Health status

[JenjerBread]

Hi, so i have a 1tb smasung spinpoint momentus hdd that "died" on me in june 2015. well today i plugged it for lols to see if it would work again. it registered and came up in windows. i found but can not see any programs i had installed in my directories. it also takes a long time to show up and takes a long time to read the drive but whe i check drive manager, the status of the hdd says that its "healthy". any ideas how i can get it working again please.any help would be gratefully recieved as i need the drive to work again 

thanks in advance

[Electronics Wizardy]

if you want data, send it to a data recovery service, any thing else you do is just lowering you chaces of getting data.

[doomsriker]

It is dieing. Get what data you can off of it and than retire it. RIP. 

[pwn_intended]

If you do not need any data from the drive, you can try just re-formatting the drive from disk management. (in windows 10, right click on start menu -> Disk Management)

 

If you want to recover data from it, you will need to use some recovery software. There are tons out there, along with recommendations on this forum so I wont suggest any right now.

[JenjerBread]

the issue with sending it to a data rcovery service is tat it costs money which im slighty out of at the moment 

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

if you want data, send it to a data recovery service, any thing else you do is just lowering you chaces of getting data.

thanks though

any programs that might work??

[JenjerBread]

Just now, pwn_intended said:

If you do not need any data from the drive, you can try just re-formatting the drive from disk management. (in windows 10, right click on start menu -> Disk Management)

 

If you want to recover data from it, you will need to use some recovery software. There are tons out there, along with recommendations on this forum so I wont suggest any right now.

do you know of any good ones??

 

[pwn_intended]

1 minute ago, gchan985 said:

do you know of any good ones??

 

Off the top of my head, I cannot think of any free ones, as the ones I use at work are quite expensive, ($1000+) and will not name them since I don't support software downloads from questionable means. (I seriously doubt you are ready to drop that kind of cash)

Like I said, there are tons of recommendations on this forum already, just use the search bar at the top right.

[JenjerBread]

Just now, pwn_intended said:

Off the top of my head, I cannot think of any free ones, as the ones I use at work are quite expensive, ($1000+) and will not name them since I don't support software downloads from questionable means. (I seriously doubt you are ready to drop that kind of cash)

Like I said, there are tons of recommendations on this forum already, just use the search bar at the top right.

right thanks for that 

[Electronics Wizardy]

7 minutes ago, gchan985 said:

the issue with sending it to a data rcovery service is tat it costs money which im slighty out of at the moment 

thanks though

any programs that might work??

Send it do a data recovery service if you want the data. Your just hurting it buy trying it your self.

 

If you really want to, make a image with ddrescue, then make a copy of the image and try photorec, and recovura.

[JenjerBread]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Send it do a data recovery service if you want the data. Your just hurting it buy trying it your self.

 

If you really want to, make a image with ddrescue, then make a copy of the image and try photorec, and recovura.

if i create an image of my (full) 1tb hdd will the image be 1tb too?? and i have already tried recuva which will just hang when looking for data

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, gchan985 said:

if i create an image of my (full) 1tb hdd will the image be 1tb too?? and i have already tried recuva which will just hang when looking for data

Yep(unless you compress it)

 

How much do you want the data? Send it to a data recovery service.

[JenjerBread]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yep(unless you compress it)

 

How much do you want the data? Send it to a data recovery service.

i kinda need it but dont need super urgently so i guess it can wait

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, gchan985 said:

i kinda need it but dont need super urgently so i guess it can wait

Send it some where like this if you want to ge the datahttps://www.securedatarecovery.com/services/hard-drive-recovery

 

 

[JenjerBread]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Send it some where like this if you want to ge the datahttps://www.securedatarecovery.com/services/hard-drive-recovery

 

 

thanks for your help but im based in the uk and the shipping will cost a ton aswell ill probs just format it or chuck it

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, gchan985 said:

thanks for your help but im based in the uk and the shipping will cost a ton aswell ill probs just format it or chuck it

Ok then.

 

Do you have about 1TB of extra storage space? Im mainly a linux guy for this type of stuff and can walk you through what id do.

[JenjerBread]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Ok then.

 

Do you have about 1TB of extra storage space? Im mainly a linux guy for this type of stuff and can walk you through what id do.

yes i do but that means ill need another usb to sata adapter

which i have somewhere

Edited December 12, 2016 by gchan985
mistake typo