My external HDD (1TB) is corrupted and showing the below error in Windows. The disk icon shown in My Computer and in system tray.
Location is not accessible
G:\ is not accessible
The parameter is incorrect.
I have tried the PhotoRec recovery tool to get my data back (pic 3). But I have limitations on my system HDD as it cannot hold 1 TB of data. So I bought another 2TB HDD and copying to it.
In first attempt, the PhotoRec finished up to 35 percent and recovered 100 GB of data. After this 35%, the disk's icon is gone from My Computer, but the light on the HDD was illuminated. As I could not see progress, I disconnected everything and re-started again. But in this second attempt, it completed but I could get only 2 GB, which I could not understand.
Now, I need to get some advice that which software can recover the HDD with original folder structure. I revised the below softwares, most of these cost $100 per year:
- Disk Drill
- EaseUS Recovery
- R-Studio
- MiniTool
- Stellar
- DMDisk
- Is there any software which I can purchase with a lower cost and having perpetual license (i.e., one time payment)?
- If there is no such software, which software from the above list will perfectly suite me?
- How should I know if there is a hardware issue with the disk?
dd_rescue
. A defect HDD is only getting worse, therefore the more often you try to recover something the less you will get until it is totally gone. For that reason you should make a full image and then only try to recover something from the image. Never directly work on the defect HDD only on the image!.img
file usingDDRescue-GUI
, how can I extract the data ?