Infamous Barracuda 7200.11 - Beyond Salvage? Please help!

[flameboy54]

Hi all,

I fired up my (recently deceased) wifes 1.5GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 - yes, that Barracuda series - which was in an enclosure for the longest time. Long story short, only one partition showed up totaling 497GB.

There's 2 other ones, a 900GB and a 200GB which was strange cause I don't remember making those partitions for her. Nonetheless,as per my screen shot they show as not active with no drive letters. I'm not 100% certain but I think there's more then the 180GB on the whole drive. I know she used the drive for wedding videos she's done for friends and none of those projects appear in the existing data.

I don't recall hearing the notorious clicking noise or anything when she was using it in my presence and I've never combed thru the drive (enclosure and drive was purchased and put together by a friend). Anyhow, based on what you see is there any indication this is a failing drive? Or maybe the drive is completely fine and partitions were in place when shipped from the factory?

What can I do to test the drive? I would really, really like to find out if there's more data on the drive since it could be something important. Thanks in advance.

 

[SheerTheSheep]

Ok so from your screenshot, the 900gb portion has no file system associated with it, or windows cannot identify which file system is being used, chances are slim that the 900gb partition actually contains any data.

 

[flameboy54]

Ok so from your screenshot, the 900gb portion has no file system associated with it, or windows cannot identify which file system is being used, chances are slim that the 900gb partition actually contains any data.

Yes, that's what I assume, no file system associated with it, or windows cannot identify which file system is being used.

When I right click on the 900GB partition (in computer management) the complete menu is greyed out except for "Delete Volume". Does that seem right?

 

[SheerTheSheep]

Ok so from your screenshot, the 900gb portion has no file system associated with it, or windows cannot identify which file system is being used, chances are slim that the 900gb partition actually contains any data.

Yes, that's what I assume, no file system associated with it, or windows cannot identify which file system is being used.

When I right click on the 900GB partition (in computer management) the complete menu is greyed out except for "Delete Volume". Does that seem right?

yea if all the options are grey'd out i would assume either it contains no data, or the data is corrupt, but i do not believe it points to a faulty drive...

 

[flameboy54]

Ok so from your screenshot, the 900gb portion has no file system associated with it, or windows cannot identify which file system is being used, chances are slim that the 900gb partition actually contains any data.

Yes, that's what I assume, no file system associated with it, or windows cannot identify which file system is being used.

When I right click on the 900GB partition (in computer management) the complete menu is greyed out except for "Delete Volume". Does that seem right?

yea if all the options are grey'd out i would assume either it contains no data, or the data is corrupt, but i do not believe it points to a faulty drive...

Thanks for your reply. With that said, should I try to recover any possible data? What's the best way to go about it?

 

[flameboy54]

Do I digged a little deeper and tried to access the drive on Ubuntu and managed to see what I believe is the 900GB partition with data on it. I'm not too proficient with Ubuntu and would be more comfortable using Windows. Any reason why it would show on Linux but not Windows?

 

[flameboy54]

Figured it out. Forgot to mention that she used a Mac and the 900GB partition was formatted HFS which was why I couldn't see it in Windows. Installed boot camp drivers and registry entries and came up fine in disk management.