Unstoppable! You failed me!!

[draggar]

I'm trying to recover data off of a drive. The drive is so bad that even unstoppable copier can't handle it.

[lordlundar]

Wow. I'm honestly impressed. Good luck draggar.

[draggar]

Bad sectors love to happen in files that are accessed a lot.

Large files are also at risk because they cover many sectors.

Hmm, are there any files that are large *and* used all the time?

Hmm.... PSTs?

Even freezing the drive didn't help.

[bean]

Time for a professional data recovery. Be prepared to pay through the nose.

And next time, enable SMART monitoring in the bios, it's saved me a few times now.

Oddly enough... I bought 2 identical drives from a friend of mine about 3 1/2 years ago. Both with the same usage on them (out of the same machine). One started giving SMART errors 6 months ago, so I popped it in another PC with a 1TB drive and copied everything off... it died pretty quick afterwards. Its twin is still running strong, but I know I'm on borrowed time now.

[draggar]

Bean, two problems with your solution:

1) I'm not allowed to adjust the BIOS on the PCs.
2) the company won't pay for the data recovery.

I am "the IT guy" for a company - I am at their mercy, er, budget.

To bad people alway give me bad surveys when they lose their data.