Seagate 500GB Barracuda gets detected but cant read from it

[surinder.singh]

Hi This is Surinder from India.
Plz help me with my Seagate 500 Gb HDD.

1.Wont detect in My Computer.
2. I n Manage shows ( needs Initialisation )
3. But there is CCTV video footage in it, cant loose it.

Anybody can help me with suggestions to recover CCTV data?

BW,
Surinder.

 

[pclab]

1ºst: usually CCTV drives have specific partition format, so you cannot "see" it on windows.
2º You need proper software to deal with CCTV cases (if I'm not mistaken).

3: if you can, you should image the drive (if you can) and put it back on the CCTV system, to see if it gets detected and working.

 

[lcoughey]

It is not uncommon for these drives to have head and firmware issues. So, if the video is of significant value, you might be wise to just take it directly to a data recovery professional right away.

 

[surinder.singh]

hi gentelmen, thanks for your responce.
It is CRC error confirmed.
when HDD tries to read it comes up with checksum error.

Any suggestion to solve this CRC error problem.

BW,
Surinder.

 

[Jared]

I my experience CRC errors usually relate to bad sectors, but can also indicate more severe issues. If the data is important, I'd agree with Luke that you should just go to a professional data recovery shop. If it's worth risking to save a few bucks, then you might try using ddrescue to image the drive onto another hard drive. Here's a tutorial for that: how-to-clone-a-hard-drive-with-bad-sectors-using-ddrescue-t133.html

 

[Amarbir[CDR-Labs]]

Hello Surinder ,
We Are Based In Chandigarh ,Were Are You From ,Might be i could have a Look