Trying to recover data from faulty HDD

[Agustin Lanus]

So, one of my HDD broke after a lightning storm a few days ago and I can't seem to get the files on it at all.

I'm pretty sure it's not absolutely destroyed because I can see it in the BIOS and I have disks I: and J: on My Pc (which don't show their capacity and cannot be accessed).

Right now I'm running HDD regenerator but it has only found 10 sectors so far from which 9 are bad. And if it keeps taking 1-2 minutes per sector I'd have to wait for 3716,5 years until if finishes.

What's the right thing to do? programs like recuva can't select the disk to recover files and I also can't CHKDSK it

 

[USAFRet]

Sounds like it is about 3 days past the point where you should have made a backup of that data.

9/10 bad sectors sounds like it is too late.

 

[Agustin Lanus]

So, should I resign from trying to recover my data myself and send it to recovery experts? or is there any other option?

 

[Agustin Lanus]

Sounds like it is about 3 days past the point where you should have made a backup of that data.

9/10 bad sectors sounds like it is too late.

So, should I resign from trying to recover my data myself and send it to recovery experts? or is there any other option?

 

[USAFRet]

Sounds like it is about 3 days past the point where you should have made a backup of that data.

9/10 bad sectors sounds like it is too late.

So, should I resign from trying to recover my data myself and send it to recovery experts? or is there any other option?

How much is this data worth to you?
Unless it is absolutely priceless...like family photos where that was the only copy...just let it go.

 

[Agustin Lanus]

Sounds like it is about 3 days past the point where you should have made a backup of that data.

9/10 bad sectors sounds like it is too late.

So, should I resign from trying to recover my data myself and send it to recovery experts? or is there any other option?

How much is this data worth to you?
Unless it is absolutely priceless...like family photos where that was the only copy...just let it go.

That and some other important files which I'd pay for ONLY ft that's the only way.

So, in short, that's the only thing left for me to try?

 

[USAFRet]

Not accessible in Windows.
Recuva can't see it.
HDD Regenerator reads 9/10 bad sectors....
Doesn't look good.

Possibly try to boot from some other OS and see if that will read it.
A Linux boot CD, perhaps.
But the more you mess with it, the closer it comes to total failure.