saman0suke

Thanks, I've been busy with work these days, but I will try to make a last effort, once again, thanks for being so patient!!

Ok, then let's do the following, please guide me about what to do with ddrescue or dd_rescue, and I will ask him to do it, problem of doing it myself is that I wouldn't like to let the computer turned on for days doing the scan, and If I save the progress day by day I will never finish thanks a LOT for the patience!!

NOTHING. I will translate: EITHER your friend used dd wrongly OR the whatever he dd'ed was all 00's OR an unknown error happpened OR your actual disk is all 00's. I don't really want to somehow take advantage of your misfortune till now, BUT if you quickly review this thread you will see how it goes like this: saman0suke: I need help and advice for .... jaclaz: first thing you should use tool A using it along procedure B saman0suke: OK, I used tool A with procedure C then jaclaz: well, as said you should use tool A along procedure B saman0suke: OK, I had a friend using maybe tool D along an unknown procedure, here is the result jaclaz: result is no good Your turn. jaclaz Well, I can't tell if he made a mistake or something, he really knows about linux tools and all that since its job is about working on that environment, I asked him to create another image since he can leave the hard drive scanning at his work where they have like a "cold room" for the servers, disks, etc, that's why I asked this to him, maybe with a second image we could do something, but to be honest, I don't think is either a problem with the user or dd, more with the disk itself I'm sure he used dd since he told me a few days ago, maybe If I ask him the steps he made so I can tell you, and make sure he's not skipping a step, or doing it in the wrong way...

Got it, it's actually the same, what can I get from this? thanks in advanced!!!

You are not going to get very far if the recovered data is like this. The file you posted consists of ONLY 00's. I hope that this is only somehow "a glitch in the matrix" and that the rest of the file actually contains data . You should first thing calculate the MD5 of the image file you have in your hands and compare it with the result of using this: http://www.edenprime.com/software/epAllZeroHashCalculator.htm A suitable tool to calculate the hash on the image is http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/hash_my_files.html jaclaz Well, that's not good I will do the following and post the results, is it possible to have a 60 GB image with no data at all? thanks!

Ok, I just created the file you requested, here it is, please let me know about anything, thanks in advanced!! myfirst200.zip

I'm currently on step 2, since trying to get a 500 GB image from an almost dead hard drive will take many days, if it's possible, besides I'm interested only on the 100 GB partition :S, I have the image with me, I will work with it when I get home, thanks!

Nice to see you around, and thanks for all the help as usual I will get the image from this guy today, and will do what you're asking me to, actually he used the "original" dd, that's correct, by the way, I was reading some articles about using some tools like Foremost, Scalpel, MagicRescue on the .img file, what do you think about these tools? I will work on a copy of the image of course, I wouldn't like to ruin the image as well :S thanks!!

Hello again, I couldn't do anything before regarding the disk, but a friend of mine helped me to scan the damaged hard drive with DD ( which is DataRescue_DD I'm assuming) and got an .IMG image, which is about 60 GB (the hard drive is 500 GB with two partitions, one of 400 GB and the other 100 GB, I just need the 100 GB, so he got 60 out of 100 GB), now, I can mount this image with Daemon Tools for example and see what I can recover? or what would be the next step? thanks!!

Haven't had any time to keep the hd running with the software :/ too much work, I will try to do it this week and post the results, thanks!

Ok then, I will keep trying as soon as possible, since I'm busy with work right now :/ I will post my results, once again, thanks for all the help!

I still need to try doing it in parts then, but, why so many errors? is there a possibility to recover something? thanks!

Any recommendation? thanks!

I just got the hard drive, I will install windows xp on a 60 GB hard drive that I have and then will try to get an image from the disc, I will let you known, thanks!! EDIT: I'm running DataRescue DD on the same computer I was trying before, I only installed Windows XP 32 bits on another hard drive, and I have also the 1 TB HD connected to make the image, first problem: when I connect the damaged hard drive, the computer never advances from the INTEL screen, like trying to load something, so I had to dettach the damaged one and put it on an enclosure to connect when the OS is already loaded, I can see both partition , but I cannot access to any of them, when I start the scan I receives lots of error message:: Any help? At this point, the scan is still running, thanks!

Ok then, I will get it as soon as I can, now that my job vacations are coming, would be a nice exercise, I still hate that I updated the hard drive's firmware and tried the "freezer" trick, I just hope I still can do something, thanks! bad thing: 1 TB hard drive is SEAGATE (MAXTOR) as well don't trust them anymore hahaha

I just find 1 TB hard drives, it does not matter since I'm not going to try an exact image backup right? I mean, I think it's even better to have more space, thanks!!!

Well, after what you said, I will give it a try and get another hard drive, in the worst case, I will ended up with two broken hard drives, and the data is actually important so I don't care about spending on the second hard drive, I will try to get it this week and will continue with your steps, thanks a lot jaclaz

I just want to let you know some things before: I was trying to come up with some solutions for this, at Seagate forums I was advised to try putting the hard drive into a freezer for about 2 days and then trying to connect it to the computer, in order to make some internal parts being frozen and placed into the correct positions, what would give me at least 30 mins to get some data from it......IT DID NOT WORK, I'm afraid that after trying this method the hard drive became more damaged and my chances to get some data would be minor, do you think there's still a chance after doing some unusual methods like this? If so, I'm wiling to buy a larger size hard drive to give it a try, since I don't have any right now, just same size. I'll see if I can install another partition with Windows XP on my home computer, something else I should tell you, on the second computer that boots up normally, it just takes a long time between the windows loading screen and the login screen to come up, but it let me log in and initiate session, just taking longer than usual when the hard drive is connected. Something else, yesterday I was connecting the hd and see what I was able to do, I did shake it a lil' bit, and you can hear like something is loose, but just a lil bit, not like moving all over the hard drive :/ Thanks in advanced for all the help, I'll be waiting for your advices about this post, and will get another hard drive if needed.

I tried connecting the hard drive to another computer I have at home (running a different INTEL motherboard model, Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bits) and the computer did not get stuck, I entered into BIOS and it still recognize the disk as STM3500320AS, then I boot up the OS, and I was able to see both partitions, but, when I tried to access to them I received the message "Do you want to format?", so, at least I can boot up the computer with the hard drive connected; where can I get Victoria? is there an official website? thanks!

I know updating the firmware was not the smartest idea, I made a mistake by listening someone I shouldn't, at least before I was able to boot up computer with the HD connected to the motherboard, now I can't and it always get frozen rigth at the INTEL screen, that's why so far I cannot enter into BIOS, I guess it's fully dead right? I will try again, but any idea would be helpful. By the way, some of the comments were innapropiate in my opinion, I'm not an expert on hardware, that's why I'm asking for help. Thank you.

Good day, I found this forum searching for a solution, I'm already losing any hope, so, I will do my last effort I have a Maxtor STM3500320AS DiamondMax 22 SATA 500 GB, which suddenly stopped working, I was not able to see it on Windows Ultimate x64, so I entered into Ubuntu x64 and gParted advised me to run CHKDSK on the disk since it had problems, I tried to do it with the Windows Installation disc, but it didn't work, because It did not see the disk. I checked BIOS and I can see the hard drive, I put the hard drive on an enclosure and logged in on Windows, and I was able to see my two partitions (1 about 100 GB and the other 400 GB aprox) but when I tried to enter it said "Do you want to format this drive?" so I canceled it, I tried to use severalrecovery data applications with no success, most of them just get frozen when the scan starts, and launches a lots of error of the type I/O error. If I try to go to Windows Management Disks, I can see the hard drive as Not initialized, when I try to "mount" it, it says that I cannot do the operation due to an I/O error. Checking on the Seagate forum, I noticed that an importante firmware update was available for my hard drive (I was on MX15) and I installed it on the drive, with no problems at all, but now, everytime I want to boot up the computer with the hard drive connected to the motherboard, the computer stays "loading" at the INTEL screen and never goes forward, I have to disconnect the drive, boot up any OS and then connect the drive, using an enclosure, or connecting the sata cable after the OS is loaded. I still have some hopes to recover something, I just care about maybe 20 GB of the small partition, if you have any idea, I would like to give it a try because right now i'm out of them, I checked about a BSY LBA0 error, something that happens with this hard drives, but I don't know if I have this problem, please guide me, at this point, I'm ready to try any method to save some data from it, I'm pretty sure the data is fine, thanks in advanced, have a nice day!! I attached an image of the actual Hard drive info, if works for someone. EDIT: I was thinking on getting an exact hard drive to replace the Logic board, could this be a possible solution? thanks! ESPAÑOL: Para hacerlo un poco resumido, tengo un disco duro Maxtor DiamondMax 22 STM3500320AS 500 GB SATA, de repente dejo de funcionar, no lo veia en Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bits, fui a Ubuntu x64 y gParted me recomendo hacer un CHKDSK el cual no pude realizar ya que al insertar el disco de Windows no me reconocia el disco duro, he tratado de utilizar muchos programas de recuperacion de datos o sectores dañados y la mayoria terminan congelandose y lanzando errores de tipo I/O (entrada/salida). Si voy a la admin de discos en Windows, puedo ver el disco duro pero esta como "No inicializado" y si trato de montarlo me dice que ha habido un error de I/O, a este punto la unica de ver el disco es colocandolo en un enclosure, y puedo ver las dos particiones que posee, pero me pide que los formatee antes de entrar puedo ver el disco duro en la BIOS sin problemas; revisando los foros de SEAGATE me doy cuenta que hay una actualizacion de firmware para este modelo, la aplique, pensando en una solucion y ahora, cada vez que quiero iniciar la pc con el disco duro conectado a la motherboard, este se queda cargando en la pantalla de INTEL y no pasa de ahi, tengo que iniciar sin el disco duro conectada, y cuando el SO este cargado completamente conectar el disco duro, estoy seguro que aun puedo recuperar alguna informacion. He pensado en obtener un disco duro identico y cambiar la placa logica, pero no se si funcionaria, o realizar el procedimiento para resolver errores de tipo LBA0 o BSY, cualquier ayuda es bienvenida, gracias