[qetuo4756]

First of all, I want to point out that I have very little knowledge of technology.

I have a NTFS Seagate 2TB Go Flex Desk external hard disk drive. A couple months ago, I found that it had a problem where my laptop could detect it, but couldn't access it and needed to "reformat" it. I left it alone for a while.

Recently, I tried plugging it in again, and behold, it seemed to work okay and I could see all the files and so on. I tried chkdisk without the fixing part (/f). I didn't want to "fix" it until as last resort because it seems to imply some data will be lost. It said there were a lot of bad sectors.

I couldn't read some of the files (most of them were rar files) in my hard disk, and had "read error" and "data error (cyclic redundancy check)". So I basically moved all the files which were normal out of the disk as I couldn't move the others ("can't read from source file or disk") and now I'm left with the broken files, most of which are important. 40gb of 16,000 files.

Is there any hope for me to recover those files? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

Edit: after this, how would I deal with the bad sectors?

Edited by qetuo4756, 23 June 2013 - 10:46 AM.

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qetuo4756

You could try Recuva but if the files are damaged and have been caused by bad sectors on the HDD I fear that you may not have much luck http://www.piriform.com/recuva

[phillpower2]

qetuo4756

You could try Recuva but if the files are damaged and have been caused by bad sectors on the HDD I fear that you may not have much luck http://www.piriform.com/recuva