Data Recovery Forums - Help & Discussions

wafic01 · Joined: 26 Jan 2010 Posts: 2

Hello
I own a 1-tera external hard-drive that i use to backup all my projects books and pictures , there is about 300GB of Data on this disk , an accident happened and the dive fell on the floor , now it emits a clicking sound when plugged in. I think that the heads are damaged or just loose , i was able to recover about 20% of the data by using Eassus recovrey software ,diskdiger and GetDataback for NTFS , by running them on hard-drives were the data used to reside , i think that is the most i can get out of these.The final solution left for me is to try and open the hardrive my self and change the heads with others form an exact same model , i'm aware of the complications , i know that time is an essence wen performing this task , i would like to know if there is an imaging software that could help me take an image that i would use later for recovery , since the hardrive might not be accessible for a long time , the only solution i taught of is to use dd (disk dump ) in linux , but i need something more reliable and faster .
Thanks in advance