Can’t Access Files From A Bad Hdd, Crc Error.?
I have a bad hard disk that won’t boot windows on my laptop, so I am trying to recover all my lost data from it on my desktop via a hdd enclouse. The hard drive is split into three partitions, Games Partition, Applications Partition and Windows and Files Partition.
The games and Application partitions work fine in explorer and I have copied all the data onto my Desktop disk drive. However, the most important partition (windows & files) won’t access through explorer or command prompt.
In explorer, when i click into the hard disk drive, it says “E:\ has not been formatted, do you want to format?”. No.
In cmd, when i type in the copy command and the address i want to copy (my entire my documents folder) it just says “Data error (cyclic redundancy check)”.
I just ran a chkdsk /r on the partition, and it hasn’t done anything.
What can i do to access the partition and copy my files to my desktop hdd? Is there some good free recovery software I can use, or some better commands in cmd i could use?
Basically, all i want to do is to have my windows running up again on my laptop and have access to all my files as if nothing has changed.
Thanks.
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You can try to recover your data with Easy Drive Data Recovery software:http://www.munsoft.com/EasyDriveDataReco…
It uses unique modern algorithms to recover files that other software either recovers incorrectly or is unable to detect.
You can use Hard drive regenerator which repairs hard drive errors using software http://www.abstradrome.com/. It’s not free but it works great and will get the job done.
The program allows you to create a bootable flash drive to get the process started if necessary.
you need a special software to do the recovery, windows explorer will not able to handle it.
it will take you several hours to complete the recovery process, it depends on hard drive size.
i suggest you buy new hard drive after that.
I always use a linux live cd (any will do…ubuntu, linux mint….), pop it in the cd drive, restart the computer, press F12 and select ‘boot from cd’. Open the file manager and copy the files to whatever you have to copy it to. Generally works even when windows is toast.
A CRC error is usually do to a fault in the low-level formatting – the formatting that divides the disk into tracks and sectors. When that goes, it’s usually hopeless, but there’s one last trick that might just save some of your files.
Download a Linux LIVE CD image and burn it to a CD (as an image, not as a file). Boot with that CD and you’re running Linux. Download ddrescue (http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddr... ). (You might want to read http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/... to get familiar with the dd command.)
Be prepared to have patience – it once took about 17 days for it to go through a 30GB drive of mine. (Don’t do this on the computer you want to use every day, of course – but it will run on just about any old box.) ddrescue will read every single readable sector on the disk, and you can have it write an image of that disk out to another drive (as an image file). You can then use dd (which comes wirh Linux) to write the image to another drive. Any files that could be read will be there. (Those that couldn’t will have sectors of blank data.)
Yes, dd (and ddrescue) can read Windows disks – they can read any disk your computer hardware can read. They read sectors, not files.
So it’s free (aside from the 15 cents for the blank CD), you get an education and you have a handy tool to use for a lot of things (if you read that article).
You may want to attempt to repair the corrupted partition using free software (http://www.dtidata.com/free_data_recover... but I strongly recommend you don’t do that. No point going through all the long process of repairing (and maybe it fails halfway) to find out that a few days later it becomes corrupted again.
You can still try to retrieve whatever data you may have in C: with that freeware. I suggest you get a new HDD (just get a small capacity for your C:) and use that corrupted HDD to store files or something.