Too many bad sectors

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Hi,

I ran WD digital lifeguard diagnostics on my 1tb hard drive and was told there were too many bad sectors.

Does this mean it is not possible to recover the data ?

thanks

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This is result of the diagnostic test;

Version:1.0 StartHTML:000000286 EndHTML:000001342 StartFragment:000000415 EndFragment:000001294 StartSelection:000000415 EndSelection:000001284 SourceURL:file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Western%20Digital%20Corporation/Data%20Lifeguard%20Diagnostic%20for%20Windows/WinDlg.htm

Test Option: EXTENDED TEST
Model Number: WD My Passport 0748
Unit Serial Number: WX81A9231837
Firmware Number: 1019
Capacity: 1000.17 GB
SMART Status: PASS
Test Result: FAIL
Test Error Code: 08-Too many bad sectors detected.
Test Time: 21:35:05, February 05, 2019

any ideas ?

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Bad sector hard drive recovery is only possible upto some extent.

You need to leverage third party hard drive recovery software ( use Imaging option, kind of feature in most of these days software )

Hope it works!