Primary Hard disk fail
... Hello im new with data recovery tools. I had read that this Recue Mix can help recovering from a nearly "dead" hardrive. Ok this is my situation. When i start my computer i get the following error: Primary Hard Disk Fail...Ok so i put the damaged hard drive in another system, and Window XP can see the drive, the problem is that when i try to copy the data, i always obtain errors, and i can hear some noise like a click (it take long time to acces and a lot more to try to coyp something). I have tried som demos of recovery tools like R-Studio, but when it finish to search the drive, i think more than 90% of the data is not recovable. So waht i need to do? i have read that i need to make a image first (using DD or somethign), there is recommendations?
Thanks a lot.
Use gddrescue to make an
Use gddrescue to make an image of the drive. Let it work for days and see how much data it can recover by slowly trying and retrying the bad areas of the disk.
If the disk can be read at all, you usually will be able to get a fairly complete image.
So obtain another disk on which you can put the image (needless to say it must be bigger than the damaged drive. Make sure it is formatted to NTFS (or Ext3 if you use linux) since FAT filesystems do not support files bigger than 4 gigs, and the image will be as big as your raw drive. Boot the rescue remix on the windows computer that detected the drive.
Create a work directory on the target drive:
sudo mkdir /media/usb0/recovery
cd /media/usb0/recovery
Find out what the source drive is
sudo lshw -C disk -short
and run gddrescue using it as the source
sudo ddrescue /dev/sdc1 image log
(The above command will read from sdc1, write to a file named "image" and keep a log named "log". The log is useful when you want to stop and resume your recovery. You may want to do this after a few days and put the drive in the freezer for a few hours.)
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