I accidentally pulled out my externa hard disk from my TV without unmounting it. After this the HDD is not working properly. When I plug it in my laptop it says that the USB device is not recognizable. I am able to see the HDD as a drive in my system but not able to access it. It asks for formatting the drive the moment I plug the HDD to any laptop. Its a 1TB external HDD.
I tried to recover the data using EaseUS but after scanning for a while it stopped abruptly. Before getting disconnected it showed a message like "Bad sectors found and program is trying to skip that". But the software lists all the directory that my HDD had and also listed all the images that I have in the HDD.
Then I used AOMEI partition Assistant to identify the amount of Bad sectors. the software ran for 10 hours and there are lot of bad sectors identified till now as in the image below. Bad Sectors
I am a photographer by profession so I am trying to recover the images in my HDD which comes to nearly 60-80Gb.
Questions:
- EaseUS scans the director and lists the images what I am looking for. Will it be possible to stop the scanning before it encounters the bad sectors and start recovering?
- Does Formatting my HDD and then running a recovery helps me to overcome problems with the bad sectors?
- Searching answers online- I am seeing mixed response for fixing bad sectors. Given the image of my HD bad-sectors above, is it possible to fix them or recover the data?
- Is there any advice on using a better software to recover data with bad sectors in it?
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