Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

When I run the diagnostics both the quick test and extended test error out immediately with an error message "too many bad sectors"

I am trying to recover files from a WD My Passport 500GB drive. When I hook it up it does ID the drive, but I get the error "Read disk WDMy Passport at_____failed after 1 attempt. Media is write protected(19)

I also tried to do a byte by byte image, but it thinks its a 1 TB drive, so it is looking ...

Thanks for the information.

Maybe a dumb question, but how can the size of the partitions be so much bigger than the size of the hard drive.

I scanned an old laptop harddrive and I am trying to recover all of the pictures off of the drive. I have read most of the help files on this site, but I am still a little confused.

When I scanned the drive I got 3 green partitions, about 40 orange, and 40 red partitions. Under the extra files I ...