HDD Recovery

I've got 2.5 HDD that has pretty much died. I've had some luck with Stellar phoenix trying to recovery it but it's barely reading the sectors. It's so slow it. I let it run 24hrs a day for about 4 days and decided to cancel. That was just to scan the drive, the recovery took a few more days after that.

The drive is spinning but then will spin down. This goes on and on. Its reading about half a second of information every 10 seconds.

I don't know if anything can be done other than letting it run 24hrs a day for the next few months and have a massive power bill. Anyone have any ideas to another solution? Thanks

 

4 days..lol..i would've stopped it after 24hrs.Power use will be minimal it's only a pc & mines usually on 24/7.There's only two options assuming any of the data you recovered is any good,if it's not you have your answer.Options are let the read & write recovery run for x amount of days or accept data is gone.If you choose to let it run i'd personally set x amount of days to recover,if it hasn't by then end it all with a hammer

 

Hi Gustavo, I know it is a number of days old forum but I want to know that have you succeeded with stellar to get your data back because I also think to opt for it. Kindly suggest.

 

try easeus recovery tool, pulled down most of my fried files off a broke hdd, and on a more not serious note, your not going to have a big bill for a hard drive spinning for days

 

You might look for a sector fixer. I don't know if they still make this type of software. I have an old seagate utility that would read a sectors multiple times until it was sure the reading was accurate then write it back a few thousand times. This takes forever but it can recover a disk.

 

use a hiren disc and the hard drive regenerator to clean up bad magnetic sectors
this may help your recovery
getdatabackis another date recovery software that is pretty reliable

kyran