Windows 10: old hard drive is unresponsive; all recovery methods freeze my computer. What's going on?

Discus and support old hard drive is unresponsive; all recovery methods freeze my computer. What's going on? in Windows 10 Network and Sharing to solve the problem; Hello! I was trying to move data from an old SATA HDD when my computer crashed. Since then, the five main folders have all shown up as 0 bytes, and... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Network and Sharing' started by JayF0ur, May 28, 2020.

  1. JayF0ur Win User

    old hard drive is unresponsive; all recovery methods freeze my computer. What's going on?


    Hello!

    I was trying to move data from an old SATA HDD when my computer crashed. Since then, the five main folders have all shown up as 0 bytes, and file explorer stops responding when i go into the folders.

    When i used both the 'scan' and 'scan and repair' options for the drive, both of them reach a certain point before also freezing completely as well. At that point i can't close the programs, even through task manager, and I've had to force shut down my computer each time.

    My father suggested putting it in the fridge - which I accepted out of desperation and that seemed to actually work because my Pictures folder started responding again, but after trying to scan and repair it again i realised the app had frozen once again.
    I've even tried to use the third party tool 'Disk Drill' but even that crashes after a minute or so. Finally, i'm trying to use chkdsk in command prompt but so far, it also seems to have stuck at Stage 2 examining file name linkage for an unreasonably long time.


    At this point i've already given up on my drive - but I've got many memories and also a personal project on there so it would be a miracle if I was able to get it functioning again. Does anybody have any ideas as to what has happened to it, and if it's possible to restore anything. Thanks!

    Below is a picture of the command line, which hasn't changed for about twenty minutes now.

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    JayF0ur, May 28, 2020
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  3. Msap14 Win User
    Hard Drive Data Recovery

    got a laptop pata hard drive that makes a slight constant clicking noise. hard drive is more than likely dead/dying right... i can see that partitions of the hard drive in disk management and i can see the partitions in my computer but i can't get to any of the data.

    any suggestions?
     
    Msap14, May 28, 2020
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  4. xarzu Win User

    old hard drive is unresponsive; all recovery methods freeze my computer. What's going on?

    new system old hard drive...

    I have an old hard drive that has those old ribbon connections to transfer data to the mother board.

    I have a new computer that mostly uses those cool little ATA (I think that is what they are called) connections.

    The new computer has a Vista OS.

    I opened up the case and I was supprised to see on the motherboard a wide ribbon connection and so I connected the old hard drive and a free power connection.

    When I turned on the computer, the system started up like usual and did not notice the new hard drive.

    I went to the Control Pannel and did an automatic add hard drive call and it did not find the old hard drive.

    Any suggestions?
     
    xarzu, May 28, 2020
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