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Data-Recovery from External hard disk which has bad sectors
I accidentally pulled out my externa hard disk from my TV without unmounting it. After this the HDD is not working properly. When I plug it in my laptop it says that the USB device is not recognizable....
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Should I turn on ignore bad sectors and create and image immediately?
Trying to clone my 3TB HDD to a brand new 4TB HDD. But I get a CRC error
WDC WD30EZRX-00MMMB0 3TB
NTFS filesystem
Using Macrium Reflect 8 I get
Clone failed - Error 9 - Read failed - 23 - Data error (...
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What does a beep sound mean from a working hard disk?
I have a laptop of 7 years old with a 2TB Seagate hard disk. About 2 years ago I heard a loud beep sound and it didn't happen again after months. But nowadays the intervals between the beep sound get'...
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Can bad sectors in hard drive really cause data loss?
I have a computer which is almost 10 years old now. It uses a hard disk which is also almost 10 years old. Recently I had installed a software called 'Hard Disk Sentinel' which checks the health of ...
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Recovering from "failure reading sector"
When I boot up my laptop (with only opensuse installed, no other OS on it), I'm greeted with error: failure reading sector 0x802 from 'hd0'. and get put into GRUB rescue prompt.
I used the original ...
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How to know if bad block is logical or physical?
I cannot read some files from external disk (NTFS system). Windows cannot read from this disk now.
I am just scanning the disk using badblocks (Linux). The program prints a lot of bad blocks.
I ...
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If I copied some files from a hard disk with bad sectors without errors, are those files unaffected?
Or do I have to find a backup?
It had thousands of reallocated sectors.
I ran badblocks on one partition but not others. Does that change the result?
I'm using Ubuntu. Some partitions are ntfs and ...
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Best copy process with pending sectors?
I'm a bit confused due to this thread: Any way to recover a file with bad blocks (CRC error in Windows)?
I recently decided on a Synology DS1815+ with four WD4000FYYZ HDDs (SHR2, which is Synology’s ...
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Can the $BadClus file hold recoverable data?
I have an external hard drive that a family member dropped but however still functions perfectly other than the drive is not partitioned; the drive doesn't even click in the way a normal damaged hard ...
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check if hdd has bad sectors ad force windows to ignore them
i have a 500gb hdd (SeaGate), and every now and then i get a bsod with error being ntfs.sys
it happens daily, maybe even 3 times a day
is there a way I can check if my hdd has:
a. A bad sector/s
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CHKDSK freezes at stage 2 for 3 days now
Last week on my laptop fair few files got corrupt. I cannot rename them, copy them or delete them. Files belong to visual studio so I cannot compile some of my projects, which I need to finish by ...
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Restorer2000 Pro: Hard drive disappears from Windows 7 when writing hard drive image
I am using Restorer2000 Pro to create an bit-by-bit image of an old hard drive so I can do all kinds of data recovery on the image rather than the drive itself. Every time it gets to a certain spot ...
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New hard disk making noise
I bought a 250GB SATA Seagate hard disk 15 days ago for 70 $ . After formatting for 2 times [I had to for faulty installation] the disk read/write speed have dropped significantly. It's also making ...
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How to *quickly* get a list of files that have bad sectors/blocks/clusters/whatever?
My wife's Windows 7 (64-bit) box has suddenly developed a SMART "disk is bad" status. I'm attempting to copy everything off (no admonishments about lacking a backup regimen, please, I know already :(...
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unreadable corrupted ntfs partition - lost clusters reported
partition magic is reporting multiple 'bad file record signature' and 'lost clusters' errors on my 250GB samsung sata disk (connected via usb on a xp sp3). Unfortunately PM is unable to fix. PM shows ...
