So, my brother has this laptop, which he keeps regular backups of - that decided to attempt suicide right before his scheduled backup for the week. Bit of testing and it seems to have about 2 dozen bad sectors according to samsungs wonderful hd dos tool that they borrowed from some students.
It won't boot, obviously, but it's also only showing up as 100Meg when plugged into a pc and, oddly, said pc refuses to boot if it's plugged in at all. Well, it just sits at starting windows despite being a secondary drive which is the problem it has in the lappy.
WD black has already been ordered to replace it, turns out it's a samsung m6 for the record, but I'm wondering if there's any way to recovery any of the data from it in it's current state. He maintains it's not critical, but it'd obviously save some time.
Or better, any way to wipe what's left on the drive in it's current state before the rma. Will boot n nuke work on a hd with a lip? Samsungs dos program got the heads moving already.
It won't boot, obviously, but it's also only showing up as 100Meg when plugged into a pc and, oddly, said pc refuses to boot if it's plugged in at all. Well, it just sits at starting windows despite being a secondary drive which is the problem it has in the lappy.
WD black has already been ordered to replace it, turns out it's a samsung m6 for the record, but I'm wondering if there's any way to recovery any of the data from it in it's current state. He maintains it's not critical, but it'd obviously save some time.
Or better, any way to wipe what's left on the drive in it's current state before the rma. Will boot n nuke work on a hd with a lip? Samsungs dos program got the heads moving already.
