Hi Guys,
First post here so apologies if its not in the right place or to the correct standard.
I (foolishly) agreed to help fix a friends computer. He had done a windows update and was stuck in recovery loop after, tried booting to Win8 live usb but eventually realised the HDD had to be removed for further tests. The laptop is a samsung chronos 7.
I am now at the stage of attempting to image the drive using FTK imager.
In crystal disk info its report a health status of bad. The image is attached.
Basically what im wondering is am i doing anything wrong? The imaging has been going for 9 hours so far, with a compression ratio of 6. His user area is ~100gb. So far the image files are 1,536,000 kb (split point) and 772,928 kb.
The questions I am wondering are:
Is there any hope for recovering the files? (they are viewable in explorer, but is very slow)
What size would you extimate the total final image size is so i can estimate how close it is to finished?
And how worrying are the errors crystal disk info reports?
Sorry for the crazy rambling post, but I am really regretting taking on this job as it was probably more suitable for a professional data recovery specialist, and I am quite fearful for the outcome.
Any advice would be massively appreciated, thanks for reading.
Gooey
PS I understand that if data is written to a bad sector it is likely gone or corrupt, I am mainly interested in the good sector data. Also please correct me if anything i have said is wrong.
Cheers
First post here so apologies if its not in the right place or to the correct standard.
I (foolishly) agreed to help fix a friends computer. He had done a windows update and was stuck in recovery loop after, tried booting to Win8 live usb but eventually realised the HDD had to be removed for further tests. The laptop is a samsung chronos 7.
I am now at the stage of attempting to image the drive using FTK imager.
In crystal disk info its report a health status of bad. The image is attached.
Basically what im wondering is am i doing anything wrong? The imaging has been going for 9 hours so far, with a compression ratio of 6. His user area is ~100gb. So far the image files are 1,536,000 kb (split point) and 772,928 kb.
The questions I am wondering are:
Is there any hope for recovering the files? (they are viewable in explorer, but is very slow)
What size would you extimate the total final image size is so i can estimate how close it is to finished?
And how worrying are the errors crystal disk info reports?
Sorry for the crazy rambling post, but I am really regretting taking on this job as it was probably more suitable for a professional data recovery specialist, and I am quite fearful for the outcome.
Any advice would be massively appreciated, thanks for reading.
Gooey
PS I understand that if data is written to a bad sector it is likely gone or corrupt, I am mainly interested in the good sector data. Also please correct me if anything i have said is wrong.
Cheers
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