I have a 2TB hard drive that seems to have died. Really it is "only TV (and movies)" but if I can get the data back I'd be a lot happier, and so would la famille.<br><br>I have removed it from the backend and attached it to my laptop with a USB/Sata Bridge (JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JM20337 Hi-Speed USB to SATA & PATA Combo Bridge according lsusb). <br>
<br>dmesg tells me:<br><br>nick@envy ~ $ dmesg|grep sdb<br>[ 6.405906] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).<br>[ 6.406940] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0xffffffff as device size<br>[ 6.406945] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 4294967296 512-byte logical blocks: (2.19 TB/2.00 TiB)<br>
[ 6.407860] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off<br>[ 6.407863] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00<br>[ 6.408674] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed<br>[ 6.408677] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through<br>
[ 6.409594] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).<br>[ 6.410606] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0xffffffff as device size<br>[ 6.412354] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed<br>[ 6.412356] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through<br>
[ 6.434782] sdb: unknown partition table<br>[ 6.435920] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Very big device. Trying to use READ CAPACITY(16).<br>[ 6.436950] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Using 0xffffffff as device size<br>[ 6.438676] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed<br>
[ 6.438679] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through<br>[ 6.438681] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk<br><br>gparted and other partition tools claim it has no partition table. I had it divided into two 1.0T partitions and after a lot of screwing about with gpart trying to work out where the partition boundaries were I thought I'd just try and guess and see what I could recover. gparted however seems to refuse to make a partition table at all.<br>
<br>Is it toast? Can anyone figure out any more steps to try and get the data? gpart gives no feedback at all, even after running 24hours.<br>