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restore/backup data from failing HD
Hello.
Yesterday I noticed a severe and sudden slow-down of my PC. Task manager showed one of the HDs being at 100% usage. SMART showed no errors (yet), so I ran chkdisk over night. Took ages so I bought a new disk to copy my files over. To get around the 100% usage, I did so with help of Knoppix and for a while everything was fine.
Until all of a sudden the disk was no longer accessible. Back at Win10, computer management still shows the HD as "healthy" (which is not true, there were some messages at SMARTctl) but one partition of two on the disk is not accessible. Chkdisk /f showed an ETA of 15 hours and a couple of unreadable segments.
At the same time, the second partition of this disk is still fine and accessible.
I have no doubts that this disk is failing, so my only hope is to recover and copy over as much data as possible. The one partition with the important files cannot be mounted in Knoppix ("magic mismatch" + "can't find valid f2fs in superblock" + recommendation to run chkdisk /f because volume was corrupt/inconsistent) and is not accessible in Windows 10.
Is there still a way to get the most important data off the disk?
Thank you very much in advance.
Last edited by darkwhite; 10 Jan 2018 at 16:38.