[mythtv-users] [OT] Dead hard drive - no partition table.

[Tortise]

Swapping the pcb from a second hdd of the same model worked once for me,
and was surprisingly easy to do....that way you should clarify which part
is faulting....good luck! (I had a pair in that case which made it easy to
do....)
On 1/06/2013 9:49 PM, "Nick Rout" <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Martin Moores <moores.martin at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On 1 June 2013 07:56, Chris Finley <debenbain at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> You might look at GNU's ddrescue to copy the whole thing to another
>>> drive, it will retry sectors several times in several ways.
>>> http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
>>>
>>> +1 for ddrescue, will take a long time to run through a big drive like
>> that, but does a great job
>>
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> I don't have room for all of it on the laptop and thought I'd take a look
> at what was being produced. I ddrescued the first 314MB[1] of the hard
> drive and it is all zeros. Not looking good at all.
>
> Thanks for the help and suggestions people. Not sure I want to spend $US89
> on spinrite. Not even sure the platters are moving.
>
> Am I right in saying that the fact that the kernel recognises it as a hard
> drive (plug it in and the kernel responds by calling it sdb and even knows
> it is 2TB) is probably just the drive electronics, and that the physical
> medium could be completely toasted, despite the basic parameters being
> recognised? Am I making sense? Is this pinot noir too strong?
>
>
> [1] not a magic number, just when I happened to press ctrl-c
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