I have a drive which is showing signs of bad sectors. Errors are "Current Pending Sector Count" and "Uncorrectable Sector Count". Crystal Disk Info did that buzz sound which I really hate. Next thing, my system froze. So I yanked the USB from its port, which, I know I shouldn't have done. Doing this unfroze everything however, using Truecrypt to try and attempt to mount the drive has become impossible now. It just renders TrueCrypt non responsive.
So I'm thinking maybe the only way for me to recover data is to do a quick format of the drive (which I haven't done yet, mind) and try and rescue the data using data recovery software?
I probably know the answer to this, so before I commit to it, will it work?
I have backups already, but the way the files was re-arranged on this drive is the reason why I want to recover it.