To the original poster (dedbeats) and anyone else looking to solve this problem: I just successfully used CloneZilla to solve this very same problem, today. **********SOLUTION.I JUST HAD THE SAME PROBLEM AND WAS ABLE TO SOLVE IT TODAY************* Try the tool PBD(Partition Bad Disk) which can bypass bad sectors and create healthy partitions. PhotoRec ignores the file system and goes after the underlying data, so it will still work even if your media's file system has been severely damaged or reformatted. PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from hard disks, CD-ROMs, and lost pictures (thus the Photo Recovery name) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec is a signature based file recovery utility and may be able to recover your data where other methods failed. NOTE If seeked lost file are still missing, give PhotoRec a try. Recover deleted files from NTFS partition TestDisk Step By Step to recover lost partitions and repair damaged FAT/NTFS boot sector Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy. TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). I just want to be able to access the drive and selectively copy off the small percentage of files I need. TL DR I don't care about the corrupt files on the bad sectors, what's gone is gone. It's a 3TB so if I recovered the entire drive, the estimated time of completion was 150 hours and increasing. It took about 5 hours to complete that, and that wasn't even the entire drive. I used Photorec to recover some of the files, but the problem is nothing is named and it will take weeks to sort through to figure out what is a backup and what is an original. The drive was used mainly as a backup, but there are some unique files I need to pull off. Is there any way to isolate and avoid these bad sectors just to access the drive once more and salvage whatever is on it? I'd like to do this before I RMA. I'm using EaseUS Partition Master to test the drive now, it's only 25% done yet it has already detected 44270 bad sectors. The writing was on the wall as the drive would randomly disconnect from the computer for no reason and needed to be power cycled to return.Ĭhkdsk wouldn't work on the drive. I have a fairly new WD external HDD that bit the dust while I was writing a few video files to it the other day.
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