ok my western digital 120 gig harddrive that i had 80 gigs of music on failed today. half of the sectors are bad. anyone know of any programs to recover this drive?

im about to cry. someone? please help????

Quote: Originally Posted by lwrs10 ok my western digital 120 gig harddrive that i had 80 gigs of music on failed today. half of the sectors are bad. anyone know of any programs to recover this drive? im about to cry. someone? please help????

um...the best advice i can give you is to set the drive as a slave, boot up from a different drive, and copy everything you can, as quickly as you can...

its already a slave......and i cant get into any folders on it

Search around on www.majorgeeks.com for a file recovery program (put recovery into the search bar).

Example of one I found: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=2773

If none of those work, then by all means, just let those tears flow like a mad river.

I would'nt get your hopes up on file recovery.... 9/10 times when they fry they take all the info with it.
There is a place locally here that will take the bad drive apart and transfer the info over to a new drive. Might be costly though, I'm not sure.

UPDATE!!!!!
i didnt recover any info off the harddrive, but in the process my ide channels on my mobo went bad. i guess that harddrive burned them out......go figure. in my little fit of rage i shattered my side panel on the floor. BAD ME!!!! now i have a computer that doesnt work, and a broken case. kinda learned my lesson on this one. and yes--i tried that harddrive in one of my other computers--its bad.

SO..........i have a new mod project coming up--------PROJECT FURY!!!!!!!!!!

im gonna piece my computer back together-----and leave the shattered look (I.E. superglue!!!!)
just imagin what the light will look like now shining off of a hundred of so cracks. i have to find a way to make it so it doesnt look tacky(no pun intended)

ill update as the pieces fall together(or glue together)........................................Y AY!!!!!

(anyone got a 939 agp board layin around they wanna sell? kinda need one at the moment..........)

Yeah I'm in a similiar situation as you are in but I never went into a mad rage.

A lot of my vapochill components went bad..but luckily Zennzzo was in the area so he fixed it for me. A day after getting everything all assembled..both of my hard drives went out all at once. I am unable to retrieve any data from either of the drives. Luckily, Raptors have a 5 year warranty but I'm not sure sending my HDDs to WD since the drives contain financial information.

In a few weeks, hopefully I will be able to afford a new HDD and start all over again.

Believe it or not, I've had several hard drives fail on me one right after the other (that is, until I started using Seagate). Now, I have my music library on three different hard drives. One internal that I use all the time, one external that I use on the road, and one that sits in an external and never gets used until the weekly backup.

It took me days upon days to do nothing but burn all the CDs that I had and I'll be damned if I'm going to sit through that again.

Rob

when my 250gb failed, i looked up some utilities on western digital's website. recovered about 75% of the stuff on the hard drive. don't remember the name of the program but when you see on WD's website, it'll be pretty obvious what its for

Sorry to hear about your loss, bug looking forward to the new project. You can get a quote from Drivesavers (www.drivesavers.com) they absolutely are the best in the data recovery department. They once recovered almost 100 drives for me that had been underwater (sewage) for a day or so. Secondary note for the future... With the price of storage as low as it is and the availability of RAID on almost every motherboard, I highly recommend spending the money for a mirror array for your data drives. Along those lines when purchasing drives for an array, it is best to get them from at least 2 different sources, as geographically diverse as possible, as that will be your best bet for getting drives from different production runs. Drives from the same batch typically fail around the same time period, so you want to try and get drives from different batches.

OK well... all is not necessarily lost.

I've had the same thing happen to me.

A hard drive went down on a computer I had and took an IDE channel with it. Or maybe the other way around. Anyway, the control board on the HD is what burnt out on it. I got a screwdriver to fit the torx bits they used, pulled it out, and lo-and-behold... burnt out component, and a corresponding burned part in the foam it was against. The IDE channel was also lost. So this isn't necessarily that unusual.

Given that half of the info on your drive all went bad at once, it strikes me that it was a similar breakdown in the circuit board. If this is the case, you might be able to find an identical model hard drive (same manufacturer, same model, same revision) and transplant the circuit board to get your data back. But make sure they are the same revision if you do. I tried this but it didn't work, because the revision was different. When I transferred the circuit board it wouldn't work with the drive... on closer inspection it had a different component on it... the part that had burnt out on the other board was different on this one. So I guess I wasn't the only one at least.

Quote: Originally Posted by mrcracker Sorry to hear about your loss, bug looking forward to the new project. You can get a quote from Drivesavers (www.drivesavers.com) they absolutely are the best in the data recovery department. They once recovered almost 100 drives for me that had been underwater (sewage) for a day or so. Secondary note for the future... With the price of storage as low as it is and the availability of RAID on almost every motherboard, I highly recommend spending the money for a mirror array for your data drives. Along those lines when purchasing drives for an array, it is best to get them from at least 2 different sources, as geographically diverse as possible, as that will be your best bet for getting drives from different production runs. Drives from the same batch typically fail around the same time period, so you want to try and get drives from different batches.

called them---$1200 dollars min. cant afford that............

Quote: Originally Posted by lwrs10 called them---$1200 dollars min. cant afford that............

That's why I tried the circuit board transplant. Hard to beat at $60. Even though it didn't work out in my case cause of being a later revision, I put the board back in the new drive and I'm still using it. Works great.

Quote: Originally Posted by lwrs10 called them---$1200 dollars min. cant afford that............

that's what they quoted me to restore my 160gb maxtor..this is after i gave it to a guy that does forensic recovery, and he couldn't get the data back..right now at home, the drive is trying to mirror to a 250gb..it seems to just be a MBR failure, but in due time, we will see if this works *fingers crossed*