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Crashed HDD?

suclearnub

suclearnub

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Hello, first off, please don't, don't relocate this thread.

My 1TB WD My Passport just crashed. Disk Utility says 'cannot repair drive', so I took that as a bad sign and tried to copy all my files to another hard drive, the 'counting files' part would work but then when the copy starts, it would stall somewhere and give me 'error -36'.
In summary, the hard disk:
- Would sometimes be recognized by the computer, but will not mount.
- Error -36 when I copy files
- Give ~75 bad sectors per 100,000 (TechTool Pro 6)
- Probably not a logical error (Data Rescue 3, and my speculations)
Some help? I don't want to send the drive to Ontrack, I just spent all my money on a new rMBP.
 
Can someone please, please, help me? I really need to recover my hard drive. Some of my projects due next week are on it. Pwease.
 
suclearnub said:
does the 'ditto' command only copy the info, or what? I'm not exactly a terminal user.
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A ditto command will copy everything, the file contents including permissions afaik.

sudo ditto 'source path' 'destination path'

Example:

Sudo ditto /Volumes/name of disk to copy from/file folder /Volumes/name of disk to copy to

sudo is the root user which grant you all access

If you just type ditto (then enter) in terminal there is some more explanation.
 
justperry said:
A ditto command will copy everything, the file contents including permissions afaik.

sudo ditto 'source path' 'destination path'

Example:

Sudo ditto /Volumes/name of disk to copy from/file folder /Volumes/name of disk to copy to

sudo is the root user which grant you all access

If you just type ditto (then enter) in terminal there is some more explanation.
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After some huge amount of luck, I managed to get the drive to mount. I can use Finder to see the files, but the drive cannot read/write. So I'm guessing the 'ditto' also doesn't work, and i don't want to damage the drive even more from trying to use it.
Is the 'put your hard drive into the freezer' method actually work? Is it worth a try?
 
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suclearnub said:
After some huge amount of luck, I managed to get the drive to mount. I can use Finder to see the files, but the drive cannot read/write. So I'm guessing the 'ditto' also doesn't work, and i don't want to damage the drive even more from trying to use it.
Is the 'put your hard drive into the freezer' method actually work? Is it worth a try?
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In a Freezer, I don't know, a while ago someone here also gave that advice, I really have no idea.

The drive mounted but no R/W, never heard of that.
 
justperry said:
In a Freezer, I don't know, a while ago someone here also gave that advice, I really have no idea.

The drive mounted but no R/W, never heard of that.
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Does ontrack really sound that attractive now? really, really dont want to send my money to them for a bit of recovery. pretty sure the internet myths (freezer, shaking the hard disk, etc.) works, and I'll try them. :D
 
suclearnub said:
Does ontrack really sound that attractive now? really, really dont want to send my money to them for a bit of recovery. pretty sure the internet myths (freezer, shaking the hard disk, etc.) works, and I'll try them. :D
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I think the best way forward for you is to do you research first, I read a bit on it and it seems if you start this process you have limited time and can even damage the disks inside and if this is the case all is lost.
 
This happened to me about a year ago, and for various stupid reasons I didn't have a TM backup. It seems like you already know that your time is short to be able to recover anything without significant expense. My failed boot drive would not mount on the laptop, but I was able to mount it from another computer when I booted the laptop into target disk mode. Not sure that'll work for you, but you may want to try it. If you have access to another Mac, you could connect them and boot yours in target disk mode and see if the other mac can read that disk.

If you are successful getting the disk mounted, DO NOT try to copy ALL your files or use a global copy program or scheme.

Manually navigate and drag/drop your individual files or folders, one-by-one, in order of importance to you.

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NewishMacGuy said:
This happened to me about a year ago, and for various stupid reasons I didn't have a TM backup. It seems like you already know that your time is short to be able to recover anything without significant expense. My failed boot drive would not mount on the laptop, but I was able to mount it from another computer when I booted the laptop into target disk mode. Not sure that'll work for you, but you may want to try it. If you have access to another Mac, you could connect them and boot yours in target disk mode and see if the other mac can read that disk.

If you are successful getting the disk mounted, DO NOT try to copy ALL your files or use a global copy program or scheme.

Manually navigate and drag/drop your individual files or folders, one-by-one, in order of importance to you.

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The individual files won't copy too. Won't budge at all. Gives me error -36.
 
Try a windows machine. I know I know but windows seems to be more forgiving.
 
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