An external hard drive has been covered - how to revive and recover data from it?

Question

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- But, now I will always honor the rule of backups and backups for the rest of my life.
The hard drive crashed, presumably from a slight shake during operation. Probably the time has come.
Symptoms - Windows does not see the disk when it is connected, sometimes the conductor blunts, as if trying to open something diligently.
When I tried this hard drive from another computer - it was found in Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Disk Management. There it turned out to be empty and unallocated (although there was data to the eyeballs before the "covering"). I read on the Internet that in such cases, light shallow formatting helps - that supposedly if you format it, the disk will recover and work as before - and then it's a matter of technology - we restore data using any utility (Recuva for example). Well, that's what I tried. The disk has been formatted. And Recuva, when trying to search for files on the disk, just hangs for an indefinite time until you cancel the operation.

Question - what to do? Maybe there is some special software? How to recover data?
The disk, however, seems to be spinning normally, as before the breakdown, no external physical abnormalities at first glance.

Answer 1

Judging by the description of the problem and the methods of solving it, it would be right in your case to take the disk to a data recovery company.

Answer 2

I don't think it should have been formatted. Nevertheless, try other data recovery programs: R-Studio, GetDataBackforNTFS, EasyRecovery. Practice shows that in different cases these programs behave differently and restore with different quality. Some are better, some are worse. The DataExtractor program from the PC3000 set performed well.

Answer 3

Formatting it helped a little, most likely, the first thing to do was to remove the case and connect the hard drive directly via SATA and look at it from there. In principle, you can try to do it now, and drive it away with a-studio . But it’s better to take it to the laboratory, while everything is still not completely sad, and until the operating system tries to write something on it in the background, in a good case, it will cost quite inexpensively.

Answer 4

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