10 Sep
2020
10 Sep
'20
6:19 p.m.
On Thursday 10 September 2020 11:11:22 BorgLabs - Kate Draven via tde-users
wrote:
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I do have another 1.5 TB hard drive (though I would need to backup its
data first); however, it is WD, not Seagate, and I would not willingly
buy
another
I always knew that, if Seagate somehow stays in business, then they must have
some customers somewhere. You must be the one.
Bill
On Thursday 10
September 2020 10:44:42 BorgLabs - Kate Draven via
tde-users
wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 September 2020 10:27:38 BorgLabs - Kate Draven via
> > tde-users
> >
> > wrote:
> > > On Thursday 10 September 2020, William Morder via tde-users wrote:
> > > > Hello again!
> > > >
> > > > I told you that you'd miss me when I'm gone. :-]
> > > >
> > > > Please, I need recommendations or strategies for recovering data.
> > > > I had
>
> a
>
> > > > flash drive become unreadable, after I plugged it into my new
printer
> > > > to print out some documents
that had been long in waiting. Then,
> > > > before I could save myself, I had a 1.5 TB hard drive also fail.
> > > > On this hard drive is (of course) the source of those backup
> > > > copies on the flash drive. This is the partition which I was just
> > > > about to backup.
> > > >
> > > > I have several hard drives, from 200 GB up to 8 TB, from 20 years
old
> > > > to brand-new; all are WD,
except for one which is Seagate. Guess
> > > > which one failed? I forget when I got it, or why I ever would
> > > > have got anything
>
> but
>
> > > > WD, or why I would have put anything important there.
> > > >
> > > > I have used ddrescue to try to recover the data, as well as other
> > > > forensics tools. Recovered images (img and iso) are saved, and
taking
> > > > up space, but I cannot
determine if there is any useful content
> > > > in what was recovered. The failing partition has not been
> > > > deleted. It cannot be read or mounted, so I have just left it
> > > > like that, so that I can try to save it.
> > > >
> > > > Every attempt to recover the data gives the same result: 2
> > > > errors, 3072 B, that cannot be read. I tried using tools to look
> > > > inside the saved iso image, but no luck there. I don't want to
> > > > erase or format the failing disk partition until I am sure that I
> > > > have recovered the data.
> > > >
> > > > My last hope is that I have another 1.5 TB hard drive; I could
> > > > try
to
> > write the disk images to that partition
before I format the old
> > drive. But first, of course, I would need to backup materials
> > from that drive, and now I am running out of space again.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> >
> > P.S. And if things were not bad enough, the skies here in San
> > Francisco are a muddy mixture of orange, black, brown and gray.
> > At noon today, it looked like the middle of the night.
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There's another option but a wee bit expensive.
>
> Purchase the same model SG drive (or whatever model etc) that
> failed and swap out the electronics.
>
> Assuming there's no mechanical damage, it will work.
> It's often why I buy drives in pairs.
>
> Hope this was helpful.
>
> Kate
It is an internal hard drive, not external. Is that what you mean?
Bill
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I understand. I mean swap out the IDE boards on the drives.
Make sure to mark the bad one so you don't try to reuse it.
I've done that only a few times but it works. They must be the same
model.
Kate Seagate hard drive.
Bill
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You can't mix boards. They must be the same make and model.
Perhaps you can buy just the board? Or a used working one?
I've used both SG and WD and have had far more failures with WD.
I guess it depends on the models and how they are used?
I currently have nearly all SG drives in the "big machine" the server.
12 drives in total with no failures over the last 10 years.
Kate