That will tell you if the drive is completely dead or recoverable.
Get GRC's Spinrite software and run the basic, "level 1" scan. Here's what I do when dealing with such stuff.įirst of all, do not "use" the drive, as in connecting it to your system and browsing the drive or anything. Actually I've just lost a single file worth of 2000 euro. Be advised that some regard this product as snake oil, and they DO have a point.Hey there. I would not gamble important data with it, but it mostly has worked for me during situations like yours. I've had good luck and nuttin from Spinrite.Of course the nuttin was from a novice using it - so may not count. Only you can decide if it's more cost effective to just buy the recovery disks - or attempt a repair. "Reckless" probably starts with Spinrite.
But if you've already recovered that data - you can be reckless.
Most important question right now? Did you pretty much salvage all of your personal data on that drive? If not, you may need professional help. So take a deep breath - your OS is safe and you still own a license.Ĭlonezilla is a good tool. It's pain to find them and order them - but you can always replace factory recovery disks.
It started to drop 9 hours ago.Ĭan the OS be rescued? I don't have the original OS repair disk. The remaining time keeps going up and the GB/min speed has passed from 1.6GB/min to 200MB/min. The remaining percentage (stuck at 80.83%) and the blocks processed are both stuck for 9 hours from now. I started the cloning process 13 hours ago and it keeps going. Yesterday, as a final ditch effort, I bought a flash drive with Clonezilla burned in to clone, because I thought Windows was interfering with the drives. I also tried Windows chkdsk to repair and it gets stuck at a certain percentage "forever" (1 hour). The OS now always starts in safe mode and even in this mode, everything loads up slowly. I first tried to clone it on another HDD with Macrium Reflect, but it aborts in the middle of my OS partition cloning operation and says "read failed 22 - 32".Ī week ago, I started working on it again. I decided to backup all important files before proceeding to clone my HDD. Six months ago, the OS booted normaly, except it was very slow and it freezes randomly.
I have a bad laptop hard drive, which has my genuine Windows 8 OS.
I posted this here since it is more specialized on data. Just make sure to tag the post with the flair and give a little background info/context. On Fridays we'll allow posts that don't normally fit in the usual data-hoarding theme, including posts that would usually be removed by rule 4: “No memes or 'look at this '”