Recently, my HDD received a click of death and was unable to boot, albeit most of the partitions where visible via Windows on another HDD. Data on Windows XP x86 was able to be written and viewed, whilst the XP x64 partition was formatted - the Windows 7 x64 partition wasn't listed, although I had assigned a new volume which had revealed the partition of which couldn't be viewed nor formatted.
After, I burn Spinrite 6.0 to a CD and attempt to restore the Windows 7 partition via a recovery option; Spinrite operates for a total of 12+ hours but the partition was still inaccessible and couldn't be formatted via Windows.
Is there any other software or means to recover the data from the partition with Spinrite that will provide me with access to it?
Thanks, any help is greatly appreciated.
Please?
If it has the click of death, you should NOT be running the drive. The longer you let the clicking happen, the more it corrupts the data on the drive, making any sort of recovery nearly impossible.
The click of death is usually caused by a hardware problem on the drive's controller and the only way of fixing that problem is really to take it to some data recovery specialists.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;19527195]If it has the click of death, you should NOT be running the drive. The longer you let the clicking happen, the more it corrupts the data on the drive, making any sort of recovery nearly impossible.
The click of death is usually caused by a hardware problem on the drive's controller and the only way of fixing that problem is really to take it to some data recovery specialists.[/QUOTE]
So sending the drive to data recovery specialists would pose as the only solution?
I assumed it were the click of death, and I'm still somewhat unsure - from what I've read, a 'click of death' should render the drive useless. However, if I access the drive via my other through Windows, I can view the XP x86 partition, read and write data from it. My Windows XP x64 partition however, is empty - it's rendered as if it were formatted.
The Windows 7 x64 partition is inaccessible and cannot be formatted; I ran this partition on Spinrite and it told me it recovered the data (I could see some of the text data that was once on that partition displayed in Spinrite whilst it were recovering the data) but the partition was still inaccessible from the other drive through the Windows UI.
I ran Spinrite again, and it was barely progressing on the recovery stage and completed two blocks, displaying them as unrecoverable. Should I leave Spinrite on the drive for a week, take it to a drive specialist or should there be any alternative options I should bare?
Do you have anything on that drive that you desperately can't live without? Taking the drive somewhere is likely to cost $1000+ for recovery. Those places are very expensive. The longer you run the drive using Spinrite, the more is being destroyed as the drive decays more.
[QUOTE=livelonger12;19764661]I assumed it were the click of death, and I'm still somewhat unsure - from what I've read, a 'click of death' should render the drive useless. However, if I access the drive via my other through Windows, I can view the XP x86 partition, read and write data from it. My Windows XP x64 partition however, is empty - it's rendered as if it were formatted.
The Windows 7 x64 partition is inaccessible and cannot be formatted; I ran this partition on Spinrite and it told me it recovered the data (I could see some of the text data that was once on that partition displayed in Spinrite whilst it were recovering the data) but the partition was still inaccessible from the other drive through the Windows UI.
I ran Spinrite again, and it was barely progressing on the recovery stage and completed two blocks, displaying them as unrecoverable. Should I leave Spinrite on the drive for a week, take it to a drive specialist or should there be any alternative options I should bare?[/QUOTE]
I told you that would happen, you basically screwed yourself by messing around with it. Even if you took it to a data recovery place now, they likely wouldn't be able to get anything off of it, and still charge you a large chunk of change.
[QUOTE=YodaEXE;19767136]Do you have anything on that drive that you desperately can't live without? Taking the drive somewhere is likely to cost $1000+ for recovery. Those places are very expensive. The longer you run the drive using Spinrite, the more is being destroyed as the drive decays more.[/QUOTE]
Not really... but I would like it back. So there's no other alternative aside from taking the drive to a recovery institute?
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[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;19778598]I told you that would happen, you basically screwed yourself by messing around with it. Even if you took it to a data recovery place now, they likely wouldn't be able to get anything off of it, and still charge you a large chunk of change.[/QUOTE]
I ran Spinrite twice before I created this thread - I haven't ran it since. Damn!
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