Recovery of data from a failed drive
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2015 11:03 pm
Hi
I have a failed drive that I'm attempting to recover data from. I've never tried doing this before but figure it is worth a shot.
The failed drive is an external 500GB drive which I removed from the case and plugged directly into a working computer. On boot, Windows 7 wanted to run Checkdisk and I let it do that. It seemed to hang at 76% then the system rebooted into windows and the drive was no longer visible.
I then booted from a USB stick with IFL and was able to get a backup of the failed drive...I received a "Notice" on completion that said the following.
"The Backup completed with 549578279 bad sector(s) encountered.
Using TBIView I can open the backup and look at the folder structure but there doesn't appear to be any files within the folders. Is that normal???
I then resized the drive with Windows7 on it to around 400GB (The size required for restore was approx 250GB) and attempted to restore the backup to this smaller partition.
It took an hour to complete and failed with the following error:
Partition reduction failed (1/2/54) Please run a file system check
On rebooting into windows I cannot access the partition.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
I have a failed drive that I'm attempting to recover data from. I've never tried doing this before but figure it is worth a shot.
The failed drive is an external 500GB drive which I removed from the case and plugged directly into a working computer. On boot, Windows 7 wanted to run Checkdisk and I let it do that. It seemed to hang at 76% then the system rebooted into windows and the drive was no longer visible.
I then booted from a USB stick with IFL and was able to get a backup of the failed drive...I received a "Notice" on completion that said the following.
"The Backup completed with 549578279 bad sector(s) encountered.
Using TBIView I can open the backup and look at the folder structure but there doesn't appear to be any files within the folders. Is that normal???
I then resized the drive with Windows7 on it to around 400GB (The size required for restore was approx 250GB) and attempted to restore the backup to this smaller partition.
It took an hour to complete and failed with the following error:
Partition reduction failed (1/2/54) Please run a file system check
On rebooting into windows I cannot access the partition.
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?