HDD help & Data Recovery

HI All,

I have a Seagate 200gb hard drive that suffered a power serge.
I am trying to recover what i can from it however when i put it back in to my computer all i get for about 10min is a black screen then windows will start.
Once windows is running it takes about 5min for each step of trying to run the Data recovery demo program i downloaded.
The mother board can see the drive however windows can not.
Can anyone help me?
Why is this drive slowing down my computer so much?
How would you suggest for me to recover what i need?
My computer works fine with just the new hard drive in it.

Thanks

Andrew

 

maybe u could try connecting the drive as a slave , and connecting it to a computer which is running os properly and then make an image of the drive using a software

good luck
vthenry

 

see if you can do a "chkdsk\f" command on the drive. What happened is you have data corruption on the hard drive. The chkdsk command can ussually fix that problem. That's why the hard drive is slowing down your computer.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q315265


Also if you can't get chkdsk to fix it, you might want to try the free "testdisk" program to do your file recovery.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

 

the drive could also be failing. If so the possibillity of data recovery is 50/50. You could as suggested before hook it up to another machine and run it as a slave. or you could purchase an external enclosure and run in on another machine. The reason this is better for recovering your data is because you do not have to boot an OS from that drive making it easy to access the information. If you can not get the drive to read or copy info then your drive most likly is damaged beyond repair and a recovery would cost clost to 1600 dollars.

 

I have tried both, running as a slave and as an external and still the same problems occurred.
I have come to the conclusion the only way to fix this HDD is with a HAMMER and buy a new one.

Thanks all for your help

Drew

 

have u tried chkdsk?

 

Yes i have tried chkdsk. When it run it tells me the disk is RAW and can not finnish the check.
This takes about 15mins.

Thanks
Andrew

 

That means it's game over for the drive. Unless you're willing to shell out $300 on data recovery, you may as well lob it. Before you do though, try out some data recovery software.