Would Chkdsk be faster in Windows failsafe mode?
Question I have a failing 500Go external USB HDD (Buffalo Drivestation). I am rather skeptical at recovering anything, but still, I want to try. I am running a chkdsk H: \f \r \x on it, and it is quite...
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How to connect Western Digital “My passport” using other means?
Question I have a Western Digital My Passport 500Gb external Harddrive where the USB connection on the drive seems to have worn out. I am trying to retrieve the data for a friend. Here is an image of...
View ArticleHDD Data Recovery [closed]
Question Possible Duplicate: Recover harddrive data My Laptop was running slow because of the HDD and all of a sudden a got I blue screen and could not restart the computer. I bought a new HDD and...
View ArticleLikelihood of a hard drive PCB replacement working?
Question I have a 1.5TB Seagate 7200.11 that died. The platter still spins up initially when attached to a machine, but then the drive clicks and spins down. Then the cycle repeats. I’ve found a few...
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recover files from damaged HDD / corrupted MFT [closed]
Question Possible Duplicate: Recover harddrive data I have a 2TB Western Digital HDD (WD20EARS) and lately it worked very slow, I tried to copy some files and the speed was about 30kbps to 190kbps. At...
View ArticleAny way to get bootable Vista image from recovery partition of bad HD?
Question I have an HP Pavilion box running Vista and the HD failed this morning. Safe Mode will not boot, and when I try to boot regularly, it hangs with a cursor on a black background at the point...
View ArticleCan you successfully clone a Mac OS X boot volume directly to another larger...
Question Can you clone a Mac OS X boot volume (specifically a “Mac OS Extended, Journaled” a.k.a. JHFS+ volume) directly to another, larger volume using ddrescue or even dd, and have the target volume...
View Articlepartition not available after resize using gparted. how to recover it?
Question I ran into a problem with my HDD. I tried to make some space for my linux partition using gparted and I resized one of my NTFS partitions. Unfortunately, the operation didn’t succeed and my...
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Any way to recover a file with bad blocks (CRC error in Windows)?
Question What I see is this: Windows complains when reading a file because the CRC for it mis-matches its calculated CRC. This means NTFS has a CRC for the file. I expect the offending block/sector can...
View ArticleIs my EIDE hard drive busted?
Question I bought a NexStar SAT/IDE to USB3.0 adapter 2 months ago to recover an old Dell EIDE hard drive. The hard drive engaged with the adapter 2 months ago and I was able to view the files on it....
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