6/19/2023 0 Comments Photorec testdisk ubuntuThe idea is to keep the drive cool, which improves the chances of being able to read the data. Due the the number of hours required (approximately 18+ hrs in this case), the gel pack had to be swapped with another as it warmed up. I connected the drive outside the PC (with the case open and the cable running out to the drive), and placed it on top of an anti-stat pad (circuit board up), which was in turn on top of a freezer gel pack wrapped in a towel. This is necessary in order to keep it very cool while attempting recovery. That being said, if it's a hardware problem, remove the hard drive from the PC case. But I was able to recover the complete drive using the tools I'll mention below, with of course the exception of what was no longer readable due to very bad LBAs, which aren't recoverable anyway. Basically the drive and filesystem were a mess. Diagnostics from the hard drive manufacturer confirmed over 100 bad LBAs. It was clicking badly but would still spin up, and was also not always recognized by the PC's BIOS Setup. The file system was dirty (needed a CHKDSK) as a result of using it while it was failing, prior to it becoming un-bootable (pay attention to those BSODs and clicking noises). The person had tried to boot repeatedly, which only made matters worse. The hard drive was failing badly and would no longer boot. I've done what you are trying to accomplish (somoene else's PC) for a PC with Windows XP (NTFS). I just read your post and thought I'd reply.
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