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HDD Click of death during backup

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Good night,

I was trying to backup files from an old HDD that was accusing erros, and everything was going fine until it got to about 70% of the proccess, then, the source HDD (the bad one) started to click and whine and make harsh sounds, I let it run a few seconds to see if it would stop doing the noises but to no avail.

Afraid that something really bad would happen, I tried to cancel the backup proccess, but it was unsuccessful as well, and the HDD kept doing the monstrous noises, so I went to the Task Manager and killed the ATI proccess, what finished the program but not the noise, so I turned the PC off and unplugged the SATA power cable.

The fact is that I was able to backup about 600GB of almost 1TB of data, a .tib file was created with the told size. So I tried to recover the backup but I always get the following message:

"Failed to add backup to the backup list. The backup may be locked or corrupted. Also, make sure the folder contains the last volume of the backup, and does not contain a renamed copy of the same backup. For details, please see the previous event in the log (I attached the log file)."

After that failure I tried to mount the backup as an Image and it game ve the following message:

"This is not the last volume of the backup archive."

So, the 1 million dollar question: Is there any way to recover or access the 600GB file i was able to save in the .tib file?

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You might get it recovered via a commercail file recovery process which would cost several hundred dollars or more.

Thank you for the reply GroverH.

So you mean I'd need a 3rd party program to access the .tib file created by ATI? What kind of program would that be?