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recuva (basic, but it's freeware and works pretty well for basic desktop stuff :) )
 
The trouble is, I think I have physical hard drive failure. I have noted a few weird clicks, and this morning the data was unaccessible. The drive itself was found in windows device manager and appeared to work properly.

Then in disk management it tells me the drive is unaccessible. I obviously don't want to reformat it :)

I had hoped it would last me until tomorrow when I was planning to purchase a back up volume. Just my luck it wouldn't last till I got paid (tomorrow :/).
 
My brother always tells me RStudio has never failed him, not used it myself, but could be worth a look.
 
Greenlizard0 said:
The trouble is, I think I have physical hard drive failure. I have noted a few weird clicks, and this morning the data was unaccessible.
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If it has gone to the stage of the HDD being unable to be accessed by Windows / OS of choice - It is probably beyond any software's ability to reclaim the data.

There are specialist HDD data retrieval companies - Expect to pay £200 ~ £500 depending on the popularity of the drive in question tho.

One thing to try - Stick the drive in the freezer for an hour, then try again.
If it works until it's heated up...
Freezer -> Copy -> Freezer -> Copy etc.
 
Captain Fizz said:
.........One thing to try - Stick the drive in the freezer for an hour, then try again.
If it works until it's heated up...
Freezer -> Copy -> Freezer -> Copy etc.
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Never heard of this technique before....could come in very handy I would think... ;)
 
as mental as it sounds, it does work (i'd only do it as a last resort, because usually after this treatment the drives health goes downhill fast :) )
 
Captain Fizz said:
If it has gone to the stage of the HDD being unable to be accessed by Windows / OS of choice - It is probably beyond any software's ability to reclaim the data.

There are specialist HDD data retrieval companies - Expect to pay £200 ~ £500 depending on the popularity of the drive in question tho.

One thing to try - Stick the drive in the freezer for an hour, then try again.
If it works until it's heated up...
Freezer -> Copy -> Freezer -> Copy etc.
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It hasn't though - when it works - it seems to spin up and the data isn't accessible :/ The drive name and number still appear in windows device manager though.
 
try the programs i suggested, if they don't work, you could try testdisk to recover the partition information, i've used this in the past with excellent results :)
 
The_KiD said:
My brother always tells me RStudio has never failed him, not used it myself, but could be worth a look.
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Trying this now - it seems to be the one that "goes" the furthest. Though it is very slow. This is going to take me until next week to finish :/

Every 30 seconds or so it comes up with a cyclic redundancy check (23) :/

How long did you say this took your brother?
 
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The_KiD said:
My brother always tells me RStudio has never failed him, not used it myself, but could be worth a look.
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I second that, i use RStudio and it was a worthwhile investment.

If you think you have a hardware based problem and you need the data then stop now.

The more you use the disk the damage you may do and thus the less data you may recover.

The sensible option if it is a hardware problem is to send the disk away to a specialist company for recovery.
 
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You could send it off to a company.

Try ontrack data recovery, but this will cost you an arm and a leg, so you need to make sure the data is worth it.
 
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