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As per the title, I have a WD Green 1tb that has failed. It was my main C drive and my old emails and stuff are all on there along with family pictures and who knows what else. I've rebuilt the PC on an older 250gb drive so I'm up and running. I would like to recover it if possible, but I can't afford to go to specialist firms. The drive is dated July 2011 so I know it's in warranty but that doesn't help with recovery. I have tried EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional, 5.5.1. It sees the drive, and tries to recover, but just sits there with about 1% of the bar showing.

I left it for 24 hours but no change. If it's the heads buggered, then I assume no software can read it.

Are there any tricks that can help? I've heard of freezing it. I don't know how that's supposed to help but if it does I'l try it. Can anyone advise please? If the drive is visible in Windows, then freezing it is the last thing you want to do. Freezing should only be performed when the platters or disk heads are stuck and you don't even hear the disk spinning.

And as a last measure. I've had great success with EasyRecovery Professional - when I found it a few years ago it was made by Ontrack but now I think the company got sold to some other company. Pantone Color Manager Activation Key. It's expensive but should be some pirated versions around (not condoning piracy but paying $499 for a one time use.) and keep it mind it may not work under Vista/Windows 7.

Ok - i did say as a last resort?? What is your last resort suggestion? Depending on how badly you need the data you can get a working model of the same drive, remove the discs from the dead one, and put them in the working one and recover the data. This is only temporary since unless you have a clean room the long-term reliability of the repaired drive will be compromised due to contaminates (dust) on the discs but it should last long enough to recover the data as long as there is not severe physical damage to the discs themselves. You must be extremely careful when undertaking this process or you risk further damaging the data. How To Install Vray Material Converter on this page. That being said if the data is valuable enough to go to this extreme it is probably worth sending it off to a data recovery company and letting them deal with this hassle.

For a regular desktop drive with nothing exceptionally valuable on it I probably wouldn't attempt this, but a business drive with valuable data could certainly be a candidate (shame on any business who does not back up such data), but again most business would probably prefer a data recovery company rather than risk damaging the data through such a DIY technique. Assuming the bios will see the drive, and it sounds like it does, I've had the best luck using GNU ddrescue. It's pretty unique in its implementation in that it reads until it finds and error, skips ahead and reads backwards, etc.

Basically, it tries to get as much of the good data as possible, as quickly as possible. You can direct the output of ddrescue to an image file, which you can then mount. Of course, this assumes you have good basic understanding of Linux. I haven't seen a comparable tool for Windows. Quote: Depending on how badly you need the data you can get a working model of the same drive, remove the discs from the dead one, and put them in the working one and recover the data. This is only temporary since unless you have a clean room the long-term reliability of the repaired drive will be compromised due to contaminates (dust) on the discs but it should last long enough to recover the data as long as there is not severe physical damage to the discs themselves.

You must be extremely careful when undertaking this process or you risk further damaging the data. The platters are precision-mounted at the factory, removing and replacing them will lead to losing all the data because you'll never be able to get the run-out low enough for the heads to track properly. There are over 100,000 tracks per inch in a modern HDD - can you get the platters on there with. Try an MHDD scan: The platters are precision-mounted at the factory, removing and replacing them will lead to losing all the data because you'll never be able to get the run-out low enough for the heads to track properly.

There are over 100,000 tracks per inch in a modern HDD - can you get the platters on there with. The platters are precision-mounted at the factory, removing and replacing them will lead to losing all the data because you'll never be able to get the run-out low enough for the heads to track properly. There are over 100,000 tracks per inch in a modern HDD - can you get the platters on there with. As per the title, I have a WD Green 1tb that has failed. It was my main C drive and my old emails and stuff are all on there along with family pictures and who knows what else. I've rebuilt the PC on an older 250gb drive so I'm up and running.

I would like to recover it if possible, but I can't afford to go to specialist firms. The drive is dated July 2011 so I know it's in warranty but that doesn't help with recovery. I have tried EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional, 5.5.1. It sees the drive, and tries to recover, but just sits there with about 1% of the bar showing.

I left it for 24 hours but no change. If it's the heads buggered, then I assume no software can read it. Are there any tricks that can help? I've heard of freezing it. I don't know how that's supposed to help but if it does I'l try it. Can anyone advise please?

Hi are you reading any of this? Various members have suggested different software and tactics and have asked for more info on what the failure is and if you know how it occured but you have not responded. Even knowing if it is spinning or not may help. I think we can rule out replacing the platters as an option for 99.9% of people. If we rule out Freezing Knocking and leaving it on a shelf?

What are your options. Software: Whilst you have given up on EASEUS it may be worth contacting them if you are using a bone fide copy (or even if its a bootleg) just to ask How long it should take. I have looked on their site and someone has said 'One suggestion though. Your manual should give an indication of how long it takes the program to run. To search a 120GB USB drive, it took about 40 hours to do the initial file search and then an additional 140 hours +/- to do the data recovery. I am NOT complaining about how long it took the program to run but there was a point in the process when I wondered if it was running properly.

Had there been an indication that data recovery is a long process in the instructions, I would not have had any concerns at all.' ' I know usb is going to be much slower but you may not have waited long enough. Care though if you are using a demo it seems you could wait days? Then only actually recover 1gb.

How much data was on the disk is your 250gb going to be big enough for the recovery file? Warranty: As shovenose suggested got to be worth asking if they can do anything for you. Put it down to experience (Resolve to Back Up essential files ) and get a new shiny drive. Family Photos: any other family got copies.

Can recent ones be recovered from the camera memory cards? Sometimes possible even if formatted I believe.

If you take out the platters, you would need to rewrite the servo information (if the data on the drive is not important) - servowriters cost at least $50,000 each, and are often custom made for a particular drive model. Even a head swap could necessitate the rewriting of servo information, because the heads could be significantly (even though minutely) off target after swapping the heads. Modern drives use embedded servo so the radial alignment between platters is not important - each head will seek to the right place by itself; even thermal expansion is enough to move the tracks several places over.

So if the heads are not damaged during the swap and are the same type, they will find the tracks automatically and should work well enough to recover the data. Why swapping the platters is much more difficult is due to the run-out problem I mentioned above. But as long as the tracks remain round enough the heads will be able ot stay on them.

Good evening one and all. Apologies for the delay in responding as I had lost the shortcut I made to this site / thread! Anyway, I got back here eventually.

Many thanks to all of you for the many and varied responses you have given. I think my ultimate question was: being as the software wouldn't recover anything, is it most likely that the problem is hardware as oposed to just a damaged piece of software, like the boot sector? I'm still not sure but I have emails on there somewhere regarding our local scouts group that would be useful to get back. And family pictures.

Are they worth the cost of a professional recovery? I guess I could spend up to £100, but how much does it cost? More research methinks. The chances of finding another identical drive to swap the platters with is remote I should think.

I suppose I could advertise for one somewhere. It would be interesting to play with it and see.

Selldoor, I see you have some interesting questions. Regarding the duration of the software run, I stopped after a day and a bit as it wasn't increasing it's counter at all. I was worried that if I just left it that it would eventually grind away the platters and leave no options. Maybe I'll put it back in over the weekend and try again. I have a nice new external 2tb drive now and I still have another 1tb working well. And I'm looking at which company to use for offsite backups. Bluecloud looks good.

Again, thanks for all the suggestions. I'll look at myharddrivedied.com, regenerator and other suggestions over the weekend.

HDD Regenerator HDD Regenerator is a program that is needed by all data recovery professionals. It’s not really meant to recover files, but it is great for repairing bad sectors on hard drives. Once this is accomplished, then running a on your drive should produce most, if not all of your lost data.

I personally have a lot of experience with HDD regenerator. Time and again I was contacted by other repair shops and companies as well as end users came my way after a repair shop was unable to recover the persons data. Data recovery is an art. There is no 1 single right way.

HDD regenerator is a great first step for checking and repairing bad sectors on drives. It does take a LONG time to scan and repair drives. With hard drives getting bigger and bigger this only seems to take longer and longer so patience is a must when using this tool. Overall Rating: 10 out of 10 What It Does: HDD Regenerator scans and attempts to repair any bad sectors on a given hard drive. Installation: needs under 15MB of space and took less than 20 seconds to install.

Details: The user will have three options once this program is installed. I chose the first one, which is supposed to fix a hard drive by repairing any bad sectors. You will not need the other options, unless the drive is so corrupted you can’t even load Windows. I suggest you run this program in DOS mode, with the bootable cd/dvd option. Let me give you some REAL Life Examples of how this product has worked for me!

Family Photos Fixed I once had a family contact my because their hdd had crashed on them. All of their baby’s pictures were on that drive. They were desperate to recover these pictures, so I went to work straight away. I took there hard drive and used an adaptor to mount it onto my own computer at my store. I could hear the platter being scratched.

Windows and my Recover My Files program were not seeing the drive, so I booted the the disc and ran the repair program. It did take the program 2 days to run, but I managed to repair over 100K sectors. Then I booted into Windows and used Recover My Files to get back appr. 97% of their pictures. Some pictures had lines on them, so I know that the repair wasn’t completely done, but I was able to fix it almost completely. The family was excited to get back so many of the pictures; they had thought them gone for sure.

I wouldn’t have been able to do this if not for HDD Regenerator and I have yet to find another program that comes even close in comparison. Crashed Business Data Base One night I was called into a restaurant by an overly anxious owner. His business computer had taken a dive, and the support person that worked for the company that ran the restaurant software had just told him that the computer was done, the date unrecoverable. There was no backup to his system and he had everything on this computer, including all the sales and employee hours. He was in a fix!

After looking over the computer for a minute, I realized he needed to recover the corrupted ntfs partition. Mechanically speaking, the hard drive was failing, but it could still spin up. Once again, I had to use the HDD regenerator to repair bad sectors found on the hard drive. It took a few hours to complete, then I used Recover My Files and repaired the NTFS drive and managed to recover the partition. I had to clone this drive onto another one that wasn’t damaged. I was able to recover all the the information held on the computer. I installed the new hard drive and then sold the owner a data backup product, so they need not ever worry about this problem again.

While I have many other stories to tell, I’m sure you get the point: when you need this product, you really need this product! Now, let’s continue with the installation process. I scanned a 4GB drive for any bad sectors. (Yes, I know this an old drive). There were four options to choose from after the drive was selected and a DOS based subsystem came up on the screen. Doing a prescan will only detect bad and/or delayed sectors; this takes almost as long as just doing a normal scan, which will then also allow for recovery of the sectors, while that prescan option will not.

When finished, all the info with statistics and the like will show up, so you know what has already been done on your computer. If you choose to perform a normal scan, you will have a few options available to you. The choice is all yours, just choose from the options below: While in scan/repair cycle, this is what you will see on your computer: You can also choose to do multiple scans together.

They will all be shown in the processing box. When done, you can then view the generated data from HDD Regenerator. Ease Of Use: HDD Regenerator has a super easy interface andshould be sufficient for novice use.

Summary: Repairing and recovering bad sectors is a breeze with HDD Regenerator. It installs quickly, and generally is pretty quick in performing its tasks. It’s easy to use and I would definitely recommend this product to anyone who needs it. PROS: Installs in moments, takes up hardly any space and is very accurate in its performance.

CONS: It will slow down considerably if you have a very large drive (like 1 TB), or if there are a lot of bad sectors on the drive. What to Do Next?