WD Disk WD1600aajs

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
#1

Dear Friends

I need your help I have WD internal Drive WD1600AAJS 18month old stil have his warranty

it crashed few weeks ego & I got new one instead.

the problem I have personal file my kids few giga of pictures & I cant get inside the drive.

I can see it aby my system I I saw 90Gb full but I cant get inside tp pull out this pictures.

Pls. advice how can I dig it its very important to my wife & me.

Thnak you very much for your help

Regards

Gur

#2

Clone your old drive to your new one, sector-by-sector. Then use data recovery sofware on the clone.

Some freeware cloning tools are …

HDClone: http://www.miray.de/products/sat.hdclone.html
ddrescue: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
dd_rescue: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/

Comparison between ddrescue and dd_rescue:
http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Dd_rescue