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uksathees · Joined: 17 May 2010 Posts: 1

Hi all

how are you all?

i had a 500GB Western Digital Drive with 2 partitions 100GB and 369GB, the small one had Windows 7 OS and other one i used it for data storage.

for some reason the hard drive just failed.

The computer was turned on and i was woking on it, i just went downstairs had my dinner, when i came back up it was frozen no mouse etc..

i let on like that for few minutes (5 mins) and then tried to press 'ctrl' & 'del' to restart the machine. that didn't work either.

then i just pressed power button. when i turned it back on it said there is disk to boot off from.

i ran acronis suit in dos. it picked up the disk and said there is no partition, just 469GB unallocated disk.

SMART says drive is ok.

but for some reason when i tried to install OS on it, windows 7 coudnt create partition on it, not evend FDisk or acronis.

i ran HDD Regenerator for some reason every sector from 0 it said is bad, but it also said it recovered it. i ran in for first 10,000 sectors. it recovered all.

but when i tested those sectors again it just came as bad again.

i am trying to get 369GB partition data of the drive, it had some imortant data. that 369GB was nearly full.

i dont understand why HDD Regenerator said it recovered 0-10,000 sectors, when i read same sectors again with HDD regenerator it said it was bad again.

please advise a way to get my data back. is there any hope for this drive

gregory3d · Joined: 29 Nov 2010 Posts: 3

Some idea
buy new hard drive or recovery.