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Slow HDD with many bad sectors; Data recovery
Hi Guys,
I found this forum via google search and hope that someone more knowledgeable than I am can help me save some of my data. I have a 4 TB WD Elements HDD (78% used) which I use for several years to store all my data. I have some scattered backups on other HDDs but at least some of the data on this one is unique and I really need to recover it.
At the end of last year I tried to copy some files from this drive and it froze during the copying. The writing speed went down to less than 100 kb/s.
In an attempt to solve the problem I ran windows error checking tool and than tried to defragment the HDD. Both processes took several days to complete but did not change anything.
I used Minitool partition wizard and tried a surface test. After 2 days the test had only completed 5% and almost have of the sectors were marked as bad sectors. I stopped the test at this point.
Since I am not able to find a solution on my own I am seeking your help. In the end I will only need a few folders since the rest is on another backup.
Thanks