My hard disk has developed some bad sectors on it. How can I recover data using Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery?
Bad sectors in your hard disk lead to complete inaccessibility of the drives, causing data loss. If your hard disk has some bad sectors, that first thing you should do is to immediately backup your data by creating an image of the disk using the software. You can later use this image to restore all your lost or inaccessible data. The 'Imaging' feature of Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery (Pro) enables you to create an image of the entire hard disk or any selected region of the disk.The software processes all sectors on your hard disk to create the image file and is capable of recovering data from the image created, except the severely corrupt ones.
Follow the procedure as described below:
1. Create an image of the entire hard disk using the software.
2. Recover data from the image created. (You can also recover data from this image later at any later point of time using the 'Resume Recovery' option)
2. Recover data from the image created. (You can also recover data from this image later at any later point of time using the 'Resume Recovery' option)
1. Steps to create image of HDD Using Partition Recovery:
Start Stellar Phoenix Windows Data Recovery. On the main screen, select the 'Advanced Option' tab.
You can click 'Next' at the bottom-right and continue with the process of recovery from the image.
2. Steps to recover data from the image created
If you need to perform recovery at a later time, follow the given steps:
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I have a hdd with bad sectors. I have created a .img file. Can I use that .img file to recreate the sector by sector disk image on to a new hdd?
Hi Scott,
You can not Recreate the disk image on to a new hdd but restore data from it.
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Amit Pandey
i am using your software to check status
every single sector shows red as bad!! is this possible. can i recover some data?!!
Hi Costas,
I advice you to run Raw Recovery feature of the software, it will show you some files which can be recover by the software. Be patient it will take some time to complete.
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Hi I am using the imaging tool to create an image of a failed 500GB hdd and it takes veeeery long time to complete the process. Its been 24+ hours since it started and its still going (29GB out of 465GB)....
Am i doing something wrong? Should I try a different approach??
Thank you very much...
Hi Alexandra,
Create Image feature of the software only creates the image of good sectors not for bad sector, if your 500 gb hard drive having 400gb bad sectors then its obvious to take reasonable time to complete the process.
Be patient you will surly recover data from created image.
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I have a Seagate 500GB external HDD which has bad sectors. I tried 2 approaches -
1. Recover directly. I ran the Disk Status for 12 hours, it completed a few sectors - all red. Will it show recovery option only after scan is complete?
2. Create image and recover from image. I tried the create image option - it got stuck at 0 MB at the very first sector, and no movement after that. Is it actually doing anything?
What is the better option - do I go back to Option 1?
Hi May,
1) Disk Status will not show recovery options after scanning.
2) Imaging process will take time, please leave the imaging process intact for some time, it might be possible that number of bad sectors on your hard drive are very large.
3) Best option is to create image then recover from image
Thanks