Skip to main content

All Questions

0 votes
1 answer
270 views

HDD capacity not detected correctly Ubuntu 14.04

My WD3200BUCT (320 GB HDD) stopped working. It had Win 7 (64 bit) installed. The problem at hand is that there is still some important data on it that I would like to recover. When I plug it into my ...
doktormatte's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
177 views

Widespread File Corruption - HDD failure, or other components corrupting drives?

Apologies in advance, this will be a long post as I figure explaining everything that's relevant is better than being vague and having a long back-and-forth. The main reason I'm asking here is because ...
Skarekrow73's user avatar
7 votes
0 answers
3k views

Reading data from a 23 year old IDE harddrive

I have a 200 MB Western Digital 2.5" IDE drive, originally from an Amiga 1200, that I would like to try to get an image file of, so I can keep the data that is on it. Since the drive is very old, and ...
Joakim Hårsman's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
1k views

HDD Painfully Slow, Attempting To Do a Data Recovery

I had a WD Blue 1TB drive in my laptop until 3 weeks ago where it violently froze on me. I have been trying to recover a document full of wedding photos for a family member. Though I am having no luck....
Duke Jake Morgan's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
101 views

damaged hdd: recovery possibilities?

I've had a damaged Samsung HM500JJ Rev. A laptop drive lying around for some time but only recently tried to recover any data from it. It died just after a year of use, out of the blue: no indications ...
user19087's user avatar
  • 541
3 votes
3 answers
5k views

How to save data from a dying hard drive?

I have three drives installed, 1 SSD and 2 HDD. While the system is in the SSD, many program are installed in one of the the HDD. But I think that HDD is failing. I can hardly even boot the computer. ...
Colliot's user avatar
  • 277
-2 votes
1 answer
260 views

Are there any possibilities to recover data from dead hard disc [duplicate]

I have an Sea-gate 500gb hard disc that is completely dead, i mean when i connect hard disc to my system it is not getting detected. But i had so much of important data in it, i need those data now. ...
Pandora's user avatar
  • 109
1 vote
1 answer
144 views

Damaged disk, what are my options

I think I have a damaged hard drive, with lots of PRECIOUS data on it. I always had a backup drive somewhere of it, but I needed it so I ordered more hard drives (should be here tomorrow or so) and ...
Samuel Bolduc's user avatar