Portable Hard Drive With Bad Sectors

[iego]

If you do have to use a professional service, these guys have been around for a while and would likely be trustworthy, if not inexpensive.

https://datatechlab.com/

Microcenter says they also offer recovery services, and would likely be much less expensive, but I wonder how good they are?
http://www.microcenter.com/site/cont...-recovery.aspx

If you do it yourself, or find someone to help you, you should probably start by making a copy of the drive, and then work to recover your files from the copy, preserving the original.

A device like this allows you to get at the bare metal drive and duplicate it to a new drive...
http://www.microcenter.com/product/4...ard_Drive_Dock

Or you can use imaging software to make a copy of the drive on another hard drive which you can then mount and attempt to work with or write to a new hard drive.

Acronis True Image is one of the best imaging programs out there.
https://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/computer-backup/

They will have knowledge databases and forums that will be available to help you with advice and tips, tricks and traps.
https://kb.acronis.com/content/1871

They also have a recovery utility similar to the recuva listed above that will attempt to recover files if possible.
https://www.acronis.com/en-us/person...recover-files/

An advantage of getting Acronis True Image now is that you will also be able to use it to backup in the future, etc.

-John

[n8tive97]

If you do have to use a professional service, these guys have been around for a while and would likely be trustworthy, if not inexpensive.

https://datatechlab.com/

Microcenter says they also offer recovery services, and would likely be much less expensive, but I wonder how good they are?
http://www.microcenter.com/site/cont...-recovery.aspx

If you do it yourself, or find someone to help you, you should probably start by making a copy of the drive, and then work to recover your files from the copy, preserving the original.

A device like this allows you to get at the bare metal drive and duplicate it to a new drive...
http://www.microcenter.com/product/4...ard_Drive_Dock

Or you can use imaging software to make a copy of the drive on another hard drive which you can then mount and attempt to work with or write to a new hard drive.

Acronis True Image is one of the best imaging programs out there.
https://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/computer-backup/

They will have knowledge databases and forums that will be available to help you with advice and tips, tricks and traps.
https://kb.acronis.com/content/1871

They also have a recovery utility similar to the recuva listed above that will attempt to recover files if possible.
https://www.acronis.com/en-us/person...recover-files/

An advantage of getting Acronis True Image now is that you will also be able to use it to backup in the future, etc.

-John

Thanks for the info John!