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1, 2 Next Previous topic | Next topic Author Message hddnewbie Post subject: Data recovery when error at sector 0Posted: September 1st, 2011, 8:31 Joined: July 25th, 2008, 17:25Posts: 16 HiI have used what is sector 0 in a hard drive active boot disk to look at a dead hard drive.It says "error reading sector 0 or spinrite boot sector is invalid". I dont now how to proceed.* The drive behaves the same in two different computers* It is a non-OS drive, just
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for storage* When it is used, windows gets stuck at startup, when hard drive is removed windows loads perfectly fine. So I cant look in Disk management etc. * The dead hard drive is visible in BIOS* I have not done anything yet, such as fixmbr etc* Knoppix finds the drive, but it only contains system volume information, all files are gonePlease help.... Top dmarques Post subject: Re: Data recovery when error at sector 0Posted: September 1st, 2011, 10:51 Joined: November 6th, 2006, 6:58Posts: 1747 Hi,Use an hex editor to open up your drive and check if you have access to other sectors other than sector 0.If you have, sector 0 might be damaged and that's not a big issue.If you don't, then probably your drive has any other problem that is outside DIY. Top hddnewbie Post subject: Re: Data recovery when error at sector 0Posted: September 1st, 2011, 11:24 Joined: July 25th, 2008, 17:25Posts: 16 HiCan you recommend a hex editor for me?It should be on a boot cd, since I cant get access to windows when this drive is attached.If I can access other sectors, what would next step be?Thanks Top einstein9 Post subject: Re: Data recovery when error at sector 0Posted: September 1st, 2011, 11:28 Joined: May 13th, 2010, 11:17Posts: 2078 it might be LOCKED thats why cannot access it with Sector 0try: WinHex, but useless if locked _________________Every man dies, but not every man really lives...The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. By: Albert Einstein Top dmarques Post subject: Re: Data recovery when error at sector 0Posted: September 1st, 2011, 12:17 Joined: November 6th, 2006, 6:58Posts: 1747 Winhex is a good option, but you got some free hex editors all over the internet. Top hddnewbie Post subject: Re: Data recovery when error at sector 0Posted: September 1st, 2011, 13:03 Joined: July 25th, 2008, 17:25Posts: 16 Hi and thanksI cant find winHex on a boot cdAny tips?Thanks Top Vulcan Post subject: Re: Data recovery when error at sector 0Posted: September 1st, 2011, 13:30 Joined: May 6th, 2008, 22:53Posts: 2138Location: England @hddnewbie:If you are a
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Gaming Smartphones Tablets Windows 8 PSUs Android Your question Get the answer Tom's Hardware>Forum>Storage>Help! Getting I/O errors scanning hard drive with GetDataBack> Help! Getting I/O errors scanning hard drive with GetDataBack Tags: Hard Drives Storage Last response: 10 October 2012 04:49 in Storage Share thebamafan 8 October 2010 00:25:59 Howdy, My laptop's hard drive stopped bootingthis past week. Initially I was able to access the drive using a USB boot drive using Linux. This worked once and I planned on doing it again to get my files off of it. However, it never worked again and linux disk utilities said there were read errors on the drive. Based on what I have read in posts on this forum, I downloaded Active@ Partition Recovery for Windows hoping that a corrupt MBR was the reason I couldn't boot. I tried scanning the hard drive, but after an hour it had only done 40MBs on a 111GB drive. I looked online and found that it was very possible that A@PR couldn't help me, so I downloaded GetDataBack for NTFS. When I try scanning the hard drive with GDB I get the following: I/O Error 'Unknown error (23)' reading sector 0 on HD130:. It asks if I want to continue. I said yes the first couple of times and then finally said Yes to All because the warning would not go away. I checked help and found that this was an unrecoverable read error. I let the scan continue for about an hour, but it was conituously listing Error 23 in the log. I stopped the scan because of the long list of errors and the fact that it still had 19 hours to go. I am getting the impression that these tools are not going to help me. Does anybody have suggestions about what I can try next to recover files on this drive. I'll do anything short of sending this to a recovery service... unless you know one that is really cheap. Thanks for the help, Carey More about : errors scanning hard drive getdataback COLGeek a c 125 G Storage 8 October