Re: Any other way to recover a HDD which is freezing the system? Spinrite says it will take 584 hours!


"Jonathan" <digitaltoast@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Dead Maxtor HDD. Powermax confirms it can see it, says there's drive
error.
Oddly, SMART reports OK. But I have only been able to get tools to see
this
drive by booting PC, then removing cable from HDD *just* after the POST
beep, then reconnecting cable as soon as CD spins.


are you booting from it or slaving it? If your booting from it then slave it
in another machine.


Otherwise, the HDD activity light stays on and nothing happens.

Spinrite wants 584 hours (584 hours = 3.47619048 weeks - thanks google!)
and
counting, Disk Commander freezes for 10 minutes at a time.

Is there any more "rough and ready" recovery tool? The data isn't valuable
enough to pay £100's to a specialist firm, but we'd like as much of it
back
as possible for historical reasons!

old story:

650 mb of data >burn to CD
4 gigs of data > burn to DVD
NEVER leave treasured/important things on the hard drive.



Chkdsk strangely doesn't see the drive, nor does fdsk or indeed anything
except spinrite and Disk Commander, mainly because it seems the drive
doesn't have a letter. However, I CAN see correctly named directories and
files, in amongst the guff, via some browsing (but not recovering) tool.

Thanks




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