Is there better alternative software for my situation? Should I put the new undamaged drive in the laptop and the old damaged drive in the USB enclosure? Does it matter? Should I try putting in the damaged drive in the freezer beforehand? Am I better off trying to get the important data (documents and photos) off before I try to clone? What is the best way to go about that? Is there anything I'm missing here that I should check or do with the damaged drive? Thanks!ĭrive recovery services are painfully expensive.
#Damaged hard drive full
My current plan is to attempt a full clone with DDrescue loaded on a bootable USB drive. I want to do the best I can on the first try, since (as I understand it) attempting further reads on the damaged drive will likely only make it harder recover data. I'm interested in any advice I can get before I try this. I realize that is a long shot, but the drive isn't critical enough to pay the obscene amount for professional data recover. If I couldn't do a full clone, I would at least like to copy the photographs and documents from the damaged drive. Then just swap the new hard drive in and everything would be as good as new. Ideally, I would like to clone the damaged drive to the new drive. I got a new hard drive (with more capacity than the old drive) and an external USB enclosure for it. Now the computer doesn't recognize the hard drive and I can hear a faint clicking when I try to boot. I'm fairly computer savvy, but I don't have a lot of experience with data recovery, so I wanted to get some general advice before I attempted this.
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