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Data recovery from faulty hard drive

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I have a few faulty hard drives and tried to recover one of them yesterday. After using the demo version of a really good recovery program that wouldn't show me the results because of the demo-restrictions, I remembered there's "DD" for Linux/Unix. I also found out about DDRescue, Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier, SystemRescueCD and SpinRite.

My internal HD is fully working and has Windows XP on it. The faulty HD is in an external case with USB-port along with another working one that has enough free space to copy everything to it.

Does anybody know which program would be the best to use in my case and how?
 
You did say the other HDs are "faulty". But not exactly what the fault or the symptom is. Depending on that different measures could be appropiate.
 
Some are completely unreadable, the one I'm trying to save now has read/write/checksum/CRC errors.

I managed to copy some files, others just keep hanging after a few bytes and some folders show a size of 0kb even though I'm sure there are files in it.
 
Grah, tried Unstoppable Copier now and it hangs at one point too :grrr:
 
Grah, there's not even a demo version of SpinRite? :grrr:
 
-Noiro said:
And I don't know how adventurous you are, but I had a drive reporting bad CRC's all over the place and other various errors. (god damn SMART never saw it coming) I read somewhere about sealing the drive in a one gallon zip lock bag and putting the sucker in the freezer.
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This works fine - for mechanical errors.
 
I've seen a Youtube video with the freeze trick. The HD worked for a few seconds, but still had errors, then the guy had to switch off the PC and freeze the HD for a while again.

Anyway I connected my faulty drive internally now. My little HD temperature and SMART tool told me its health is about 1% :)

Seems there's one(?) sector that is really really dead. So when I thought the programs just hung, they're actually going through that place bit for bit ](*,) which takes ages.

I'm going to try again tomorrow morning and leave the PC running while I try out Real Life™.
 
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