Hard Drive data problems

I have a samsung hard drive that i want to get data off. This drive started giving me problems about a year ago and i haven't done anything with it since.

So i plug it in to my new computer and the first thing i notice is that the drive failed the SMART test. It says bad, backup and replace. When i boot into windows (not on this drive) i can access the drive and see all the folders, but i get a lot of data errors (CRC) and a lot of read errors.

I run chkdsk on the drive and the results are shown below. I know writing to the drive is the worst thing to do so i wanted to ask for help first. I am not sure if i should let it convert the lost chains to files. One more thing to note is that even though it says the "keith" folder and the other folder are entirely unreadable, i am able to access files and read them from within windows.

Is there any chance i can get my data back?


The type of the file system is FAT32.
Volume Serial Number is 4172-5DEB
Windows is verifying files and folders...
Windows found errors on the disk, but will not fix them
because disk checking was run without the /F (fix) parameter.
Folder \keith is entirely unreadable.
Folder entry removed.
Folder \Favorites\Money Management\Bills is entirely unreadable.
Folder entry removed.
File and folder verification is complete.
Convert lost chains to files (Y/N)? n
11390336 KB of free disk space would be added.
Windows found problems with the file system.
Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
78,153,152 KB total disk space.
2,624 KB in 49 hidden files.
2,048 KB in 64 folders.
2,327,744 KB in 526 files.
64 KB in bad sectors.
64,430,304 KB are available.

32,768 bytes in each allocation unit.
2,442,286 total allocation units on disk.
2,013,447 allocation units available on disk.

 

I have had mixed results recovering data from a bad hard drive. I am not a pro at this...


This program is one you might want to check out: http://www.majorgeeks.com/download2623.html

I would remove the drive from the computer until you are ready to try it. Ideally, make the copy as quickly as possible.

Good luck

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