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total hard drive failure

starkiller

starkiller

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this suuuucks.

i have spent the best part of 2 days trying to recover my hard drive.

2TB gone to the great tech pile in the sky.

games, movies, art, torrents and 137gig of zoophilia movies, collected since 1996.

also .... a the worst of all that is ... the last picture i had taken with my dad a week before he died.

i was backing it upto a new external storage when the pc hard locked and shutdown in an instant, 1 hour of trying to get it to boot ... it finally did.

the 2tb drive was fried, the backup drive became corrupted and even tho 900gig was transferred, it was all corrupted and the only way it would mount if it was formatted.

so no matter what i did ... i lost EVERYTHING, it is gut wrenching, its like a kick to the balls with razor spiked boots
 
That does not look like an electrical or mechanical failure. I would use either Recuva on windows or equivalent program on linux to recover the data. You do not even need to format the drive, but even if you did, but did not wipe the drive or write too many nrw files on it after formating, the files are still there and you still have a chance.
 
Ouch, I'm sorry for your loss. Good thinking to make a backup but it seems to be a little on the late side.

Let's try getting something useful.

- Would you list make and model of the 2TB harddrive?
- Did you by any chance encrypt the disk or data using a tool like TrueCrypt or VeraCrypt?
- The computer which you had the issue with, does it have one or more harddrives?
- Was the Operating System also on the 2TB disk?
- Does the 2TB disk spin up when you apply power to it?

You could download a linux live ISO and burn it onto a USB stick. My favorite : https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/ . Once created the USB image, reboot your machine, hit F11/F12 or so to get into the boot menu and try to boot from the USB stick. You may need to poke around with secure boot settings, I can't tell from here.

Once booted, you can open the file manager and see if it recognizes the 2TB disk and if you can access it.
 
WD hdd, no encryption, my computer has had zero issues with this hdd before.

windows 10 is the OS and it does still spin up ... sort of, there is no click of death ... yet.

windows 10 does pick it up but it is reporting the wrong capacity ... its now saying it has 192 MILLION PB.

the recovery software i used (( 3 different free ones )) give between 5 hours and 200 YEARS for recovery, since midday i have been trying to recover any data ... so far its been 13 hours and its still at 0%.

the MBR or GUID could be buggered, i think tomorrow i'll try installing windows onto it to force it to stabilize, if it does i'm going to try and recover as much as i possibly can before it dies outright, needless to say .... i will either recover some/most data or i will just take it to the shooting ground and blast a hole in it
 
starkiller said:
WD hdd, no encryption, my computer has had zero issues with this hdd before.

windows 10 is the OS and it does still spin up ... sort of, there is no click of death ... yet.

windows 10 does pick it up but it is reporting the wrong capacity ... its now saying it has 192 MILLION PB.

the recovery software i used (( 3 different free ones )) give between 5 hours and 200 YEARS for recovery, since midday i have been trying to recover any data ... so far its been 13 hours and its still at 0%.

the MBR or GUID could be buggered, i think tomorrow i'll try installing windows onto it to force it to stabilize, if it does i'm going to try and recover as much as i possibly can before it dies outright, needless to say .... i will either recover some/most data or i will just take it to the shooting ground and blast a hole in it
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Did you try recovering the GPT partition table? Windows offers a few tools to do that.
 
starkiller said:
this suuuucks.

i have spent the best part of 2 days trying to recover my hard drive.

2TB gone to the great tech pile in the sky.

games, movies, art, torrents and 137gig of zoophilia movies, collected since 1996.

also .... a the worst of all that is ... the last picture i had taken with my dad a week before he died.

i was backing it upto a new external storage when the pc hard locked and shutdown in an instant, 1 hour of trying to get it to boot ... it finally did.

the 2tb drive was fried, the backup drive became corrupted and even tho 900gig was transferred, it was all corrupted and the only way it would mount if it was formatted.

so no matter what i did ... i lost EVERYTHING, it is gut wrenching, its like a kick to the balls with razor spiked boots
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I feel your pain... Ive been there too a few years back! A colleague sold me a TV and I stupidly plugged my main HD into it to watch a film. Up until that point I was unaware that some TVs reformat HDs on contact! On that occasion I managed to recover some files, but there was a lot lost into the either too!

Good luck with your endeavors to recover what you can!
 
starkiller said:
well .... that was the click of death and the magic blue smoke.

the drive is now offically dead :(
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I had a similar problem years ago and was able to get most of my data back. It was not easy, but it worked.

In my case, the drive's controller failed but there was no other mechanical failure and the platters and write arms were still in good shape.

I bought the exact same drive from ebay, took my HD apart and swapped out the controller board from the used eBay drive into my old drive. I was then able to power it up and mount it as the data that was physically written to the platters was still in tact.

I hope this works for you. As it had failed already once, I never relied upon this drive again for storage but I was able to get back a large portion of my data.

Good luck!

EDIT: If you do attempt this method, wear medical gloves and a facemask when you open up the drive as any particulates on the surface of the drive platters can cause you problems later.
 
starkiller said:
already had a spare drive to scavenge from, opened up the blue smoke and .... the platters were wrecked, the read/write heads made the platters look like a brillo pad.

there was zero chance of anything being recovered
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Sorry man. That really stinks.
 
starkiller said:
already had a spare drive to scavenge from, opened up the blue smoke and .... the platters were wrecked, the read/write heads made the platters look like a brillo pad.

there was zero chance of anything being recovered
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That's a bummer, worst case scenario for a drive to fail.
 
last time this happend i was able to save 80% of the stuff i had, this time round i lost everything.

at least i'll be able to start again as on another drive i have a list of movies, tv shows, anime and game mods i was making.

i can only blame myself for not having the stuff spread over my hdd's, movies on one, games on another "adult" stuff on another etc etc.

what i am lucky for ... i kept a file with all the usernames / passwords for all the websites i'm on
 
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