Data Recovery on HDD

Andybtsn

Andybtsn

Andybtsn

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Hi guys,

I'm just checking if there's anything I can do to restore some data from a laptop hdd.

Usual scenario of said drive Windows not detecting a boot device.
I plugged it into my machine and disk manager detects it but unable to initialise the device.
I have tried EaseUS and MiniTool data recovery freeware to try and scan it, both have gone hours and unable to read any data although I'm sure these aren't the most reputable of programs seems as they're free.

Anything else you'd think I could try?

Hdd is from 2014, not mega old but usual scenario of working one day and not the next.

Cheers
 
Drives intended for RAID even have that Time Limited Error Recovery (TLER) which limits how many times/how long drive tries to read sector.
But also desktop drives should in few minutes just give up on that sector and tell it's unreadable instead of getting stuck on it.
So maybe some control electronics is breaking down or lost some control data.

If it's just lots of bad sectors in some area, then whole surface reading recovery programs should find something

There are other programs like PC Inspector File Recovery and Recuva, but sounds lot like data recovery company would be needed.

http://www.pcinspector.de/default.htm?language=1
https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva
 
Does it spin up?

If not, you have two options.. (£??? or £0)

1. Send it off for a professional to look at it. https://www.ontrack.com/uk/
2. Open up the drive and move the needle

From 6 drives, I've had success with 4 of them using this method. I then copied the data off and threw the drives away.

You don't want to be trying option 2, then 1.
 
Where I used to work we used Spinrite. Never had a problem with it. I'm sure if you search around you can find a copy (it used to be available on Hiren's BootCD if you can find an old version of that)
 
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