How do I recover data from a failed hard drive?
How do I recover data from a failed hard drive?
Ian Rodriguez
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Noah Bennett
Install gentoo
Jordan Fisher
Jaxon Moore
You don't.
Camden Ramirez
depends how it failed.
in 99% cases its probably fucked.
Dylan Hernandez
send your drive to a data recovery vendor. It'll cost more than $400, so only do it if you have something worth retrieving
Nolan Barnes
You pay a lot of money to specialized companies . And maybe you get 80% back
Logan Stewart
does linux recognize it? clone it and mount the disk image
does it not? ship it off
Chase Wood
how failed are we talking about here
Matthew Diaz
You restore it from your backup.
If you were an idiot, and the data is valuable, you send it off to have professionals do it rather than half-assing it.
If you want to do it yourself; you should try to image the disk, and work with the image. Gnu ddrescue (not the original ddrescure or dd_rescue; you want gnu.org
If some areas are constantly unreadable, and they contain things that you need, I suggest using smartmontools to run a "long offline" self-test; that can often help the drive recover a couple more marginal sectors.
If the drive keeps flaking out after running for a while, keep it cold. Cool it down between recovery runs. If it won't spin up, get it warm first. Temperature cycling can also be useful in slightly tweaking how the head tracks and might help recover more marginal data.
If it is a seagate drive, there is probably a TTL serial port on it that you can use to talk to the drive firmware via a friendly menu driven interface to run some recovery functions. If you need to use it, you should have considered professional recovery.
Carter Kelly
Use safecopy to make a filesystem image. Make a copy of that image then run whatever fsck you should on the copy. Mount the repaired image and copy files off.
Alexander Jackson
Nathan Anderson
Tear it apart and extract the data, it should be inside. Find the DATA banks which have something written on them like: DATA or something and extract them.
Charles Hernandez
Have you tried manually reformatting? Just take magnets and run them the length of the drive for a 10-20 minutes. Then put it back in and select reload drive from the menu. Easy stuff bro
Ayden Bailey
Just copy it from your backup hard drive silly.
Jackson Sanders
this
troll
Mason Evans
You don't. Restore from backups.
Brayden Walker
What this guy said. Also if you do have to send it somewhere, try Gillware
Robert Scott
What is google?
Ayden Morgan
/Thread.
Brayden Collins
Send a D-mail to yourself before the hard drive failed. You just need a mircorwave and a 42" CRT. Beware of people trying to shoot ya though
Aiden Fisher
wtf i have old hdd that failed and i am going to try this later
how big the magnets should be ?
Liam Long
recuva or teskdisk
Mason Anderson
Yeah this. On your own you pretty much can't. So you need to consider what value the stuff on the drive has to you.
Josiah Brooks
In most hardware failure situations, you pay a few hundred dollars to professional recovery services.
The most obvious options are usually directly linked by the hardware manufacturers' websites.
Have RAID1/5/6 or a backup on separate drives going forward, eh. I suggest building a NAS to accept automatic backups rather than trying to fuck around with external drives and manual backups.
Cooper Baker
Data Recovery Specialist here. OP, you fucked up by not backing up but I'll help you out.
>Get a large circular magnet, like from a car speaker. This isn't a professional data magnet, but it's good enough for diy data recovery in most cases.
>*Carefully* Remove platter (it looks like a CD) from the failed drive.
>Place the platter onto the magnet. Wait about 30 minutes to make sure all the bits transfer completely.
>Discard the old platter it's empty now. Place the platter of the new HDD (again, BE CAREFUL) on the magnet.
>Place a 9 volt battery terminals down onto the platter. So from bottom to top it should be Magnet - Platter - Battery.
>Give it another 30 minutes for the battery to reverse the polarity of the magnet surface and draw the bits onto the new disk.
At this point, assuming you've followed all the directions, you should be able to put the platter back in the HDD housing and install it. You're welcome.
Ryder King
From your cloud back up, oh wait, Jow Forums is a bunch of paranoid loonies that wouldn't use cloud backups because of MUH BOTNET.
Owen Allen
hey speaking of backups, what's the best way to do it? external or internal drive?
Isaac Martinez
>How do I recover data from a failed hard drive?
The first thing to do would be to restore from backups
However, if you have failed at basic computing, then it depends on what's wrong with the drive
>just some weird logic error but drive werks otherwise
ddrescue
>controller board broken
swap board
>motor jammed
go to clean room, swap platters to a working drive
>drive was dropped while running
send to experts and/or recycle drive
Jaxson Rodriguez
Call the NSA.
Jason Reyes
>swap board
This doesn't work anymore since (((they))) are now storing some information in the board and you can't read the disk without that particular piece of data.
It's been like that for the last 10 years or so.
Liam Jackson
You say (((they))) but I think the reason is probably just a technical one
HDD manufacturers have no need to make data recovery more difficult, since they don't offer those services
Leo Murphy
i think mine is the SATA bridge
Ryan King
sounds like a great way to fuck up two hard drives