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01-02-2006, 06:07 PM
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Data recovery from HDD
I have a friends 40 Gig Western Digital Hard drive that is in my computer as a slave drive. They could not boot it up, and when viewed on "my computer", it shows as 2 drives of 20 Gig each. One of the logical drives has data that can be read, the other shows no content. I ran the "PC Inspector File Recovery" program and could not read any of the information on the blank partition either. At one time, this drive was working fine under Windows XP, so apparently, the blank partition is the one with Windows on it.
I downloaded and ran the Western Digital diagnostics software on the drive and it said that there were bad sectors in the drive and wanted to know if I wanted those sectors to be repaired. As it was checking the drive, it only seemed to wait for a few minutes on one sector, which would lead me to believe there was only a couple or more bad sectors. My question is, knowing that repairing the sector overwrites the data in that sector, what are my chances of recovering any data after the repair? Is there perhaps a better way of recovering this data that I'm not aware of? Thanks in advance for any info. |
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01-02-2006, 07:13 PM
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01-02-2006, 07:15 PM
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Yes, sorry, don't know how I managed to do that.
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