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Rescuing a Knackered HD?
Floydoid:
Today I had to remove one of the SATA drives from my machine - the one I use for backups and archive storage. Anyway Windows was so long booting up this morning, even trying a scan and repair of the errant drive before getting to the desktop, but Windows had more or less ground to a halt because it was struggling to recognise the drive, so physical removal was the quick fix solution. I found my old hard drive USB caddy and popped it in there to try it, but once again Windows was not recognising it and things ground to a halt.
So my question is, what are my options if Windows won't recognise it to the point where I could try some recovery and repair tools? I'd like to be able to recover the data as some of it is quite valuable and I've accumulated it over a long period of time.
Nobody backs up their backups, right?
Alex Atkin UK:
The point of a backup is its in addition to your main copy of the data. If it has data not found anywhere else, its not a backup its an archive and yes you should keep a backup of that. ;)
I mean technically if its important you should keep more than one backup, but once you have a lot of storage like I do its really not practical as my backup drives alone cost as much as a decent PC.
Floydoid:
I think it's a lesson learned.
Alex Atkin UK:
Sorry I can't offer actual help, I haven't had to attempt data recovery in decades (fortunately) but I have lost a LOT of photos over the years from CD/DVDs that failed, its heartbreaking.
tubaman:
Sad news :(
The symptoms you've described suggest a failure on the mechanical side, which in my experience is what usually kills spinning disks.
There are companies out there that could doubtless recover the data but it won't be a cheap exercise.
Only you will know if the expense would be justified.
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