hi i have an old dell 80gb hdd on device mgr it says not initialized and has the cyclic redundancy check error message chkdsk

[Collision pending]

i am sorry about my grammer could some one help please this drive has all the pictures of my childhood

 

[okcnaline]

It's dying. I also imagine that the file system block got corrupted. Best if you find an online data recovery service, since pulling data would require reconstructing the file system block.

 

[DSzymborski]

i am sorry about my grammer could some one help please this drive has all the pictures of my childhood

That's likely a hard drive that is dying, especially considering how old it is by now. Hard drives have physical platters and given enough time, most will eventually fail.

Your best bet right now is to stop using the hard drive completely, getting an external enclosure for it, and trying to recover from it on another PC with software like Recuva.

Best of luck - whether or not you are successful at recovering your photos, please take this as a lesson on having a responsible plan for backing up your important files. Anything important enough to not want to lose is important enough to protect.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there Collision pending,

You can try using some data recovery tool as DSzymborski suggested: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility
There is not really need to get enclosure or attach it to another computer. As you see it in disk management showing as unintialized, I assume that this is a secondary drive.

In case you can't access the drive with software data recovery tools, you may need to contact a data recovery company.

D_Know_WD

 

[DSzymborski]

Hi there Collision pending,

You can try using some data recovery tool as DSzymborski suggested: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility
There is not really need to get enclosure or attach it to another computer. As you see it in disk management showing as unintialized, I assume that this is a secondary drive.

In case you can't access the drive with software data recovery tools, you may need to contact a data recovery company.

D_Know_WD

Oh, it's probably not absolutely necessary, but the less he's running the hard drive now, the better!