Wednesday, June 21, 2017

ntfs - Laptop HDD fail, Shows partition but can not copy data, testdisk MBR code fail

I use 2TB HDD in my laptop with 250 GB partition for windows 10 and rest for data storage. I switched my laptop so moved the HDD from old to new laptop and started the system. Windows logo came up but within a minute laptop crashed and then after nothing worked. I took out the HDD and plugged externally to another windows 10 system where it shows both the partition mounted with their respective sizes. When I open the drive it shows folders as well but when I open or copy any of the folder it gives error "The device is not ready".


I tried using minitool and recuva data recovery but it failed to detect anything.


Then I plugged the HDD externally to Ubuntu system. Gparted shows 3 partitions, 1) ntfs system reserved 549 MiB, 2) ntfs Windows 250 GiB, 3) ntfs 1.57 TiB. But the direct data copy or testdisk fails.


I used testdisk to analyse lost partitions but nothing is reported, even in deep search. I then used the MBR code but even that failed.


I also used gddrescue to copy image the entire disk which ran for ~ 24 hours and made the image file of 800 GB. Following is the output of log:


# Rescue Logfile. Created by GNU ddrescue version 1.19
# Command line: ddrescue /dev/sdb /media/v/Seagate Backup Plus Drive/copy.img /media/v/Seagate Backup Plus Drive/status.log
# Start time: 2018-11-29 12:16:31
# Current time: 2018-11-30 11:33:28
# Copying non-tried blocks... Pass 1 (forwards)
# current_pos current_status
0xC21A8B0000 ?
# pos size status
0x00000000 0xBF655E0000 +
0xBF655E0000 0x00010000 *
0xBF655F0000 0x00010000 ?
0xBF65600000 0x7F078000 +
0xBFE4678000 0x00008000 *
0xBFE4680000 0x00010000 ?
0xBFE4690000 0xA9DC0000 +
0xC08E450000 0x00010000 *
0xC08E460000 0x00010000 ?
0xC08E470000 0xDDADC000 +
0xC16BF4C000 0x00004000 *
0xC16BF50000 0x00010000 ?
0xC16BF60000 0xAE950000 +
0xC21A8B0000 0x2E166F25E00 ?

I have important data in Data partition so I do not want to take risky steps. So I am now posting this question for help.


Update 20181201
I ran ddrescue and following is the current status.
ddrescue status


Any idea why the recent blocks are full of errors? I see a trend that somewhere in middle many red block are coming? Could it be that the rest of the blocks will follow the same trend henceforth? How do I see which files have been rescued in the green area?


Kindly suggest how to rescue the data on the disk.


Thanks a lot in advance.

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