How to get data out of a defective HDD ?

It sounds like it is a logical failure of the drive rather than a mechanical one (you didn't mention any rattling/grinding noises and the drive could be read on another computer). Please read the article on this link before doing more harm to the drive.
Hard Drive Data Recovery - How to Recover Data from a Dead Hard Drive - Popular Mechanics

Paul

PaulSoebekti said:

It sounds like it is a logical failure of the drive rather than a mechanical one (you didn't mention any rattling/grinding noises and the drive could be read on another computer). Please read the article on this link before doing more harm to the drive.
Hard Drive Data Recovery - How to Recover Data from a Dead Hard Drive - Popular Mechanics

Paul

Thanks for this info.

There IS a mechanical sound from the HDD. It says tick tick and so on

Golden said:

Hi,

Since you could see the disk when plugged into the other computer (as per your 1st post), please attach it again, and then run TestDisk from the other (good PC) and see if it can see the drive.

Regards,
Golden

I attached the disk again, and got what can be viewed in the attachment.
The disk has been found. It could not be initialized, and Testdisk is unable to see it.
BTW the disk also gives a mechanical sound.

AddRAM said:

darkhorse said:

AddRAM said:

How did it get unallocated ?

My grandchild says, that she got angry at the computer, and hit it

I`m sorry , I couldn`t resist.

What other machine do you have it hooked up to ? A desktop I presume. You should be able to hold the drive in your hand and rotate your wrist and feel if it`s working.

Hi. Much easier, I hold it to my ear, and it's working

gregrocker said:

darkhorse said:

gregrocker said:

Run the HD maker's HD Diagnostic extended CD scan on the HD, followed by Disk Check from Win7 DVD or REpair CD Command Line if it is repaired enough to check the file system.

I have studied the HD Diagnostic, thank you.
But as it's a Toshiba drive, I seem not able to get diagnostic tool. Toshiba cannot identify the drive from it's S/N.
I have attached a dump to this reply, that shows info for the drive.
Can you help me further on ?

If you click the link for Toshiba it gives you a DOS CD scan ISO file to download, burn to CD using an image burner like Windows Image Burner or ImgBurn, then boot to run the full scan.

I cannot see any iso file, but 2 exe's ?

Try SeaTools for DOS | Seagate bootable CD scan which works on most makes.

Toshiba has been bought by Fujitsu which has replaced it's drive tests with their own, only available to run from Windows. You can try it if you want.

gregrocker said:

Try SeaTools for DOS | Seagate bootable CD scan which works on most makes.

Toshiba has been bought by Fujitsu which has replaced it's drive tests with their own, only available to run from Windows. You can try it if you want.

Thanks for this. I think the screendump tells it all ?.
The drive is defective! ?

I would replace the HD. In the future keep your data backed up externally along with a Win7 backup image so you only need to boot the Win7 DVD or Repair CD to reimage replacement drive in 20 minutes.

When the new HD is installed you can run the factory Recovery disks you made or order from tech Support, or get a superior Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7

gregrocker said:

I would replace the HD. In the future keep your data backed up externally along with a Win7 backup image so you only need to boot the Win7 DVD or Repair CD to reimage replacement drive in 20 minutes.

When the new HD is installed you can run the factory Recovery disks you made or order from tech Support, or get a superior Clean Reinstall - Factory OEM Windows 7

I will do that too. I do the backup here, but my grandchild didn't do that. I think she has learned from this issue here .
Else I will tell her what to do.
I hoped, that I at least could get the preinstalled W7HP out of the HDD, but no luck.
TechSupport?, eMachines ?.

I want to thank all you nice people, that has helped me here. What an outstanding crew there is here

Everything you need to get the superior clean reinstall is in the blue link above. Be sure to ask back if you have any specific questions.

For the Recovery disks which include all the preinstalled factory bloatware, you'd need to contact eMachines Tech Support which is included for free for the first year. You can also compare their price on replacement HD with what you find on the web.