Need help recovering data on HDD

[FlexpertHamilton]

I have an 8TB internal HDD that I used to store movies/shows. I was in the process of making it a shared network drive, and then Windows completely froze and I was forced to shut down. Upon restarting, the drive was so screwed up I couldn't even boot (even though it wasn't a boot drive) which makes no sense to me. So, I disconnected the drive and have it hooked up with a SATA-USB cable. The drive isn't recognized in BIOS at all, but when I boot into Windows, the drive letter is still detected (G). Even more strangely, when I try to select the the G: drive in recovery software (Recuva) it says "please insert disk into drive" - WHAT?

At this point I'm at a loss. I can't even use chkdsk because it says "cannot open volume for direct access". I'm assuming the data is still on the drive but I have no idea how to recover it.

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

I nuked a thumb drive once and got all the data back.

I remember I had to buy some software to do it and the data was transferred, but the original drive was still bricked.

You can probably recover it but it might cost you something.

 

[FlexpertHamilton]

I nuked a thumb drive once and got all the data back.

I remember I had to buy some software to do it and the data was transferred, but the original drive was still bricked.

You can probably recover it but it might cost you something.

What software did you use? I can just pirate it.

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

What software did you use? I can just pirate it.

Don't remember. Was a long time ago, but I found it after doing some searching.

Wasn't from a big company. I got the impression it was from a small time programmer selling stuff on his own.

 

[FlexpertHamilton]

I've tried 4 data recovery programs and the drive isn't detected at all (paragon, recuva, disk drill, R-Studio...)

Might need to repair the drive with CMD but I'm a bit wary of any kind of reformat...

 

[Kotaix]

Is it a traditional magnetic disk hard drive or Solid State?

 

[FlexpertHamilton]

Magnetic disk, fortunately

 

[Kotaix]

Magnetic disk, fortunately

I'd take it to a professional to get the data retrieved if you can't figure it out yourself, there is a good chance they can recover it. Assuming the data is worth that much to you.

 

[FlexpertHamilton]

I'd take it to a professional to get the data retrieved if you can't figure it out yourself, there is a good chance they can recover it. Assuming the data is worth that much to you.

8TB worth of shows and movies + downloaded YT/audio that no longer exist. Hell, I had the entire collection of all of Alan Watts lectures, like 100+ hrs. So yea, I'd pay $$ for it. I don't quite know what they would do that I cannot though, given that it's not a hardware issue.

 

[AureliusMaximus]

I have an 8TB internal HDD that I used to store movies/shows. I was in the process of making it a shared network drive, and then Windows completely froze and I was forced to shut down. Upon restarting, the drive was so screwed up I couldn't even boot (even though it wasn't a boot drive) which makes no sense to me. So, I disconnected the drive and have it hooked up with a SATA-USB cable. The drive isn't recognized in BIOS at all, but when I boot into Windows, the drive letter is still detected (G). Even more strangely, when I try to select the the G: drive in recovery software (Recuva) it says "please insert disk into drive" - WHAT?

At this point I'm at a loss. I can't even use chkdsk because it says "cannot open volume for direct access". I'm assuming the data is still on the drive but I have no idea how to recover it.


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Your last hope might be SpinRite (I used it myself and it does work. It has saved my skinny butt a few times), but its long slow process to restore the drive. I can take hours even days to finish the recovery:

GRC | Hard drive data recovery software

Hard drive data recovery software

www.grc.com

Here is video about it.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=spinrite+steve

SpinRite 6.0 for Linux Users | Linux Journal

www.linuxjournal.com

You can read more also on wiki:

SpinRite - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[AureliusMaximus]

I think you might be able to send the drive to Steve (=the owner of SpinRite) with Fedex if your data is (in lack fo better words), "mission critical" for you and you want to pay up for them doing the work for you to recover your HDD drive. https://www.grc.com/support.htm @FlexpertHamilton