HDD failure?! ~ bonkers ~ i need help!!!!

[Autechre]

I had my trusty WD Green Caviar 1Tb HDD for a really looong time ( ~[strike]7[/strike]5 yrs) ...
and I think it's dead now 🙁

Or at least what I know,
"C" partition got trashed to no end
(I was kinda dumb at one point, decided to reinstall W7 n leaving old files *windows.old*),
and eventually destroyed itself!
But here's the catch: "D" is still alive tho, the access time to the drive is ass long (~ 5 - 200kb/s instead of 15-20Mb)

I tried (on multiple occasions) to revive it somehow: repair from W7 installation disc, safe mode tinkering, using different rigs, nothing really helped!

It doesn't even spinning much (refering to slow access speed)

So, can I do smth to recover the data nor avoid this zombie partition?
(if I try to boot on it, it'll say smth like this: XoR.sys is missing or corrupted I dunno rly, cuz obviously there's no OS on C, but reinstalling will simply freeze the system, same with safe mode)

I'm so screwed, and I need help!

 

[Zerk2012]

Buy a new drive.

 

[Autechre]

Buy a new drive.

Not really helpful

 

[superninja12]

Buy a new drive.

Not really helpful

buy a new harddrive

 

[Autechre]

Buy a new drive.

Not really helpful

buy a new harddrive

Looking for techie guy

 

[rgd1101]

1) stop installing stuff on it.
2) backup any data to another media
3) replace it

 

[Autechre]

1) stop installing stuff on it.
2) backup any data to another media
3) replace it

Oh finally)

I'm not even using this HDD for months! (playing round with from time to time)
I'm not sure if I can backup any data nor s/w capable to! (help appreciated)
Replaced, but data is very viable)
I can plug a short vid with booting (IF ITS ANY HELPFUL, but chances are there...cuz D partition is alive 100%, just hard to access)

 

[rgd1101]

If the data are irreplaceable, use a data recovery service, article is for raid drive but the same, look for one with Certifications
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raid-data-recovery-solutions,3878-3.html

 

[Zerk2012]

That is going to be expensive. Never ever have only one drive with no backup for important data that you can't loose.

 

[MusenMouse]

You can try to copy the old drive\partition sector by sector to a new or working hard drive. It has worked for me a couple of times when the hard drive was not physically broken, but degraded to the point where the partitions were not reading correctly or visible, or the hard drive asked for a format before working again. It is very time consuming though as I recently did this to a 250GB laptop hard drive and it took between 36-48 hours to copy over.

 

[Autechre]

You can try to copy the old drive\partition sector by sector to a new or working hard drive. It has worked for me a couple of times when the hard drive was not physically broken, but degraded to the point where the partitions were not reading correctly or visible, or the hard drive asked for a format before working again. It is very time consuming though as I recently did this to a 250GB laptop hard drive and it took between 36-48 hours to copy over.

Can you explain how exactly?)
I'd like to know...

Don't forget:
-access time is next to ages
-having a boot seq with this drive will freeze the PC
-windows recovery thingy is kinda long (I'm not even sure if its trying, not a regular freeze)

 

[MusenMouse]

Here are the steps:

1) You need a working computer and a hard drive big enough to copy over the entirety of your old partitions.
2) Install Aomei Partition assistant free version on it
3) Hook up the old hard drive through a USB adapter (If you can hook it up through SATA then that is better, but my computer wouldn't boot with the old degraded drive connected by SATA)
4) Start up Aomei partition assistant. (It may take a long time because it will try to scan the partition of your old hard drive)
5) Select copy partition and choose your old partition.
6) Then choose the hard drive you are going to copy it to. It must be unallocated space so you may have to shrink the partition of the new drive you are copying to.
6) When asked if you want to do quick copy or sector by sector, choose sector by sector.
7) After that let it sit and go.

 

[Autechre]

Here are the steps:

1) You need a working computer and a hard drive big enough to copy over the entirety of your old partitions.
2) Install Aomei Partition assistant free version on it
3) Hook up the old hard drive through a USB adapter (If you can hook it up through SATA then that is better, but my computer wouldn't boot with the old degraded drive connected by SATA)
4) Start up Aomei partition assistant. (It may take a long time because it will try to scan the partition of your old hard drive)
5) Select copy partition and choose your old partition.
6) Then choose the hard drive you are going to copy it to. It must be unallocated space so you may have to shrink the partition of the new drive you are copying to.
6) When asked if you want to do quick copy or sector by sector, choose sector by sector.
7) After that let it sit and go.

SATA to USB? Woah...