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My external hard disk (WD: 1T , 800 GB used , NTFS file system) before using GNU ddrescue had 52 Pending_Sector with 0 reallocated (remapped) sector. After several minutes, Pending_Sector increased to 58 still 0 zero sector reallocate.I used ddrescue to create an image of whole hard (/dev/sdd).

I ran ddrescue and after few minutes I stopped it due to several issues:

  • Hard drive making noise like "Vizzz" "Vizzzz" possibly buzzing sound.

  • The read speed was very low.

  • Complete recovery would take many days.

  • Several months ago when I connected to Windows , I was unable to access drives.

  • Now, I am mainly intrested in copying several GB (less than 50 GB) data (I believe I can't access entire of drive directly) what solutions do I have?

  • Can I continue using ddrescue with this situation?

  • There are several software for disk repair like Victoria for Windows, HDAT, and Western Digital Data Lifeguard. Is it advisable to use one of them?

  • Is there a way to directly copy specific folders directly from faulty hard drive either in Linux or Windows to new hard drive?

Before using ddrescue:
Before using ddrescue

source-destination-read speed:
source-destination-read speed

some read error:
some read error

After few minutes running ddrescue:
After few minutes running ddrescue

Giacomo1968
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You need to back this device up as soon as possible. Because your external hard disk will probably stop to work at any time. So, try to access this storage device using some bootable Win or Linux usb-stick and back all data up to another one immediately as much as possible.

As far I know that's your only option because the hard disk should've got to a point where there's no possible way for you to healthily clone one and after recovering any data from it.

References:

  1. How should I understand "Current Pending Sector Count" in CrystalDiskInfo reports?

  2. Get contents of ddrescue image file

Jorge Luiz
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