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10.20.2004 at 06:52PM PDT, ID: 21176557
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Massive Hard Drive Failure. Data recovery options (low cost/user based) requested.

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Miscellaneous Hardware, Backup Exec

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data, software, read
<<LISTED AS URGENT>>

Hi experts,

I am looking for some guidance on data recovery for an NTFS hard disk (80 GB, 3 partitions, 20GB Free).  I have stupidly been ignoring S.M.A.R.T. warnings for a while and have been hearing the drive heads seem to reset or park (usually four times in a row)...

At boot, I get a SMART warning: Bad <something>, backup and replace.

Now when I boot windows (XP Home, FAT32), I get many errors when reading my slave drive...Cannot read file segment.  Unreadable. or invalid or something like that. Chkdisk takes ages as it (i fear) drags the heads across the platter resulting in unreadable file segments.

So, I'm looking for the automagic cure -- running some recovery software from either a boot disk or from within Windows/cmd.  I'd like to be able to simply transfer across from the bad disk as Primary Slave to the Primary Master HDD, or perhaps even written to DVD (+/-).

In researching elsewhere, it would seem that there is a plethora of s/w out there to recover files IF your disk is accessible through windows...but not if it isn't visible in explorer. Is there a way for me to see the data, and copy it out (without sending my HDD to an expensive recovery consultancy priced for corporates...)

I look forward to your comments.

Thanks and Kind Regards,
JT

PS Not only are 400 CDs (all legal) ripped for my iPod on this poor HDD...but also when installing my iPod onto a PC-upgrade, it helpfully wiped my songs (or at least the indexes)...I cannot bear to have to rip them all over again.
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Answered By: module7
Expert Since: 09/18/2004
Accepted Solutions: 2
module7 has been an Expert for 4 years 3 months, during which he has posted 7 comments and answered 2 questions. module7 is just one of 1730 experts in the Miscellaneous Hardware Zone. 7 experts collaborated on this answer, which was graded an "A" by the asker.
 
 
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