Hard Disk Failure !

[Trisor]

Hello guys !

So my problem is that apparebly my HDD failed ! I have it over 8 years and it's a WD Caviar Blue ! 600 GB ! My problem is that I had lot's of files in there , is there a way I could possibly recover them ?

[JefferyD90]

1 minute ago, Trisor said:

Hello guys !

So my problem is that apparebly my HDD failed ! I have it over 8 years and it's a WD Caviar Blue ! 600 GB ! My problem is that I had lot's of files in there , is there a way I could possibly recover them ?

Yea, just restore it from your back up on your new drive!

[SCHISCHKA]

in 8 years you never considered buying a backup drive?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Pay for a data recovery service, normally its around 300 bucks.

[LabRat]

if you plug it into another machine you might be able to pull data off it that way.

[Trisor]

10 minutes ago, JefferyD90 said:

Yea, just restore it from your back up on your new drive!

How Can I do that ?

 

6 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

in 8 years you never considered buying a backup drive?

Well It's my secondary one ! My main Disk works fine !

 

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Pay for a data recovery service, normally its around 300 bucks.

isn't there something cheaper than that ?

 

6 minutes ago, LabRat said:

if you plug it into another machine you might be able to pull data off it that way.

I have it plugged in my system but it does't read it !

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Trisor said:

How Can I do that ?

 

Well It's my secondary one ! My main Disk works fine !

 

isn't there something cheaper than that ?

 

I have it plugged in my system but it does't read it !

you have backups right?

 

Does it show up in disk management?

 

Try dd rescue on linux.

[Trisor]

5 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

you have backups right?

 

Does it show up in disk management?

 

Try dd rescue on linux.

Nope no Backups ! Yeah it shows up but when I try opening my window stucks and it doesn't respond !

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Trisor said:

Nope no Backups ! Yeah it shows up but when I try opening my window stucks and it doesn't respond !

boot your system into linux and use ddrescue to make a image, thentry using something like test disk to get data.

[LabRat]

hook the drive to another sata port and boot. see if windows find it. I usually hot swap it and then reboot.

[JefferyD90]

30 minutes ago, Trisor said:

How Can I do that ?

 

Well It's my secondary one ! My main Disk works fine !

 

isn't there something cheaper than that ?

 

I have it plugged in my system but it does't read it !

You click restore on the utility you used to create your back up.

[Trisor]

Sorry Guys ! I was kinda inactive was really busy with my studies ! Ok I am gonna try all the above and tell you what happened !