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Recovering Data from Old Hard Disk repeatedly asking for formatting

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amlan77 Original post #1
Feb 1, 2013 at 11:57 PM
Dear Members,

I would be really grateful if someone could guide me to some software/freeware with which I can recover data from my old hard disk (Seagate 500 GB).
Whenever I connect my old hard disk, it takes a little longer than normal to autorun all the contents and then keeps saying you need to format the Hard Disk.
Now sensing trouble I have already moved most of my data from this Hard Drive but some data I am unable to move. Can anybody suggest any Software/Freeware so that I can move all the data from this hard drive and then perhaps formatting it should solve the problem

Yours Sincerely,
Amlan Dutta
Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
gameranand
gameranand #2
Feb 4, 2013 at 2:06 AM
Well the data could be in the bad sectors and which is why you are unable to copy or move it. There are no option to recover from a broken section, if this is the case then unfortunately you can't recover the data. Just format the drive and see if it helps in proper functioning of the drive.