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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   30 Mar 2015 22:12 
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Same thing but hard drive recovery. I'm not sure it's going to be possible though. My daughter pulled my parents' laptop off the cabinet and it looks like it damaged the HDD. She said it was wroking fine for a bit but after a while it rebooted, then said drive error at post.

My usual GetDataBack can't do anything with it. It recognises the drive but just hangs while Windows is trying to make its mind up.

So, anything else I can try?
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 From:  koswix   30 Mar 2015 22:36 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      34 of 77 
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Freezer? 

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   30 Mar 2015 22:41 
 To:  koswix      35 of 77 
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Think I might try that. It worked once years ago.

I booted the laptop from a Linux USB drive and it can mount the partition as read-only but doesn't show any contents.
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 From:  koswix   30 Mar 2015 22:50 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      36 of 77 
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Never tried it, but sounds like it's dead anyway so no harm in giving it a shot. 

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   30 Mar 2015 23:07 
 To:  koswix      37 of 77 
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I'm pretty sure it did work. Had a HDD that couldn't be read in Windows, froze it and  when I took it out of the freezer it worked for a little while, long enough to get some data off.

It does look like the drive is dead unfortunately. Nothing backed up from it, years of stuff on there :S Worth a shot at putting it in the freezer.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   31 Mar 2015 00:42 
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Wonderful. I can access the recovery partition fine but the rest just doesn't seem to work :(
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   31 Mar 2015 06:35 
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Freezer didn't help. Same thing this morning. Maybe it wasn't in there long enough. More likely it's DEAD.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   31 Mar 2015 07:53 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      40 of 77 
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But the recovery partition still works?

dd the whole device to an image.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   31 Mar 2015 07:59 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      41 of 77 
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Seems to. I could access the files in the recovery partition from Linux. The other partition showed the size and space used but couldn't shoe any contents.

Worth a try making an image. I'll try and find a HDD large enough when I get home and see if it will work.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   31 Mar 2015 08:18 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      42 of 77 
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Data could well be in tact just the FAT is damaged (if it still works like that for NTFS).
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   31 Mar 2015 08:40 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      43 of 77 
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I think if that's all it was then GetDataBack would have done something. The drive is making funny noises too which definitely isn't a good sign.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   31 Mar 2015 10:14 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      44 of 77 
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Sounds like physical damage to actuator(s) and/or platter(s).

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   31 Mar 2015 12:14 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      45 of 77 
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Definitely looks (and sounds) that way. I don't think there's much I can do with it :(
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   31 Mar 2015 16:53 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      46 of 77 
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Can you run a mfg diagnostic on it, or get smart info?

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 From:  Mizzy   31 Mar 2015 17:54 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      47 of 77 
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Try spinrite at grc.com also available by Jim, I've had some success rescuing disks even encrypted ones.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   31 Mar 2015 18:03 
 To:  Mizzy      48 of 77 
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Looks interesting. Worth a try. Thanks.
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   31 Mar 2015 18:04 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      49 of 77 
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It's a Hitachi drive. Not sure if their fitness test program is going to be much help.
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 From:  graphitone    31 Mar 2015 19:23 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      50 of 77 
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Maybe try Hitachi's seatools, it worked for us once when recovering a drive, but that wasn't hardware related. :/


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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   31 Mar 2015 20:26 
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FWIW I had two desktop hdds (apparently) fail in that my pc was rendered unbootable with them (it wouldn't even post), and they made loud clicking noises.

However after I stuck them in usb enclosures they are completely accessible, including all ntfs and linux partitions, and no data was lost. Also, no clicking.

One was a Seagate and the other WD.

I still have them on tap, as backups of all the 'dispensible' stuff I couldn't be bothered to copy over to the replacement. TBH I think my motherboard could have been the culprit moreso than the actual drives. The most recent hdd has been running a bit longer than the other two did, without the issue manifesting so far.

I'm creeping myself out even typing this.  :-@

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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   31 Mar 2015 21:15 
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SpinRite is going really slowly. Been running a couple of hours now and only read about 16MB of 240GB. Gonna take a while. I wonder if it will help though.
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