Recovering Data from dead hard drive

[TechnoChicken]

I Have 9 Seagate harddrives that are all dead and I was wondering if any of you could help me recover them I will post the info for the first one shortly

 

[TechnoChicken]

Hard Drive 1

Model: Seagate barracuda 7200.11 500GB

Format: HFS

I inserted This hard drive into my windows 7 desktop Via one of the SATA ports I tried to read the hard drive with HFS explorer for windows but it could only read 11gb of it. my guess would be that the rest is corrupted If anyone has any tips as to how to read a corrupted hard drive please post here

P.S I do have access to an older mac running snow leopard

 

[PP Mguire]

Try recuva.

 

[Trotter]

I had great success using R-Studio to recover data from a hard drive that failed.

 

[1etherer]

good old SpinRite will do the best job above any other recovery tool known.

https://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm

 

[TechnoChicken]

Thanks guys will try those today or tomorrow!

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

If SpinRite doesn't do the trick, check the firmware revision on the drive... The 7200.11 drives had a known firmware bug that could almost entirely brick the drives. Seagate actually got so much backlash about it that they offered to pay to ship the drives to them, flash new firmware to it, and send the drives back. But, they recommended retiring the drives once the customer recovered the data. I did because there was a ridiculous performance hit.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/11112/seagate_admits_to_mass_hdd_failures_firmware_bug/index.html

Seriously, 7200.11 drives sucked, surprised anyone has one in use these days.

 

[TechnoChicken]

These ones are over 10 years old!

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

Yeah, and?

7200.11 drives had some serious issues, gave Seagate bad rep for a long time.

 

[TechnoChicken]

Thanks for that I have emailed seagate support to see if they can recover/fix the drive for free