If your data is of any value to you, it is best to stop and consider sending to a data recovery professional and be very thankful that your hard drive is a Western Digital and not a Seagate.
In my opinion, Recuva is garbage. At the very least, it is only designed as an undelete program and not equipped to handle a formatted failing hard drive.
16835 UFS explorer pro does it, but its very expensive It isn't that expensive considering that we get to use it over and over again on jobs that we are billing for. I'll give it a go in trial mode but it will still be in RAW mode, can it determine good from bad in RAW ? As long as you are scanning...
Thanks for creating a thread that opens the doors for cell phone recovery software spammers to try and jump in. Or, is your comment in response to a post that has since been deleted?
1. This is not an SSD...it is a Toshiba convio spinning hard drive 2. If it was dropped, the logical conclusion is that there is physical damage to the drive surface and/or heads 3. The more it is on, the more damage it is likely causing to the surface of the drive If you value your data, send it to...
If you did a drive clone and didn't encounter any bad sectors along the way, the likely reason for your drive being read-only is because of underlying file system issues. So, when you did a sector-by-sector copy to another drive, you made an identical copy of the file system, including the issues it...