<p dir="ltr">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....)</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 1/06/2013 9:49 PM, "Nick Rout" <<a href="mailto:nick.rout@gmail.com">nick.rout@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Martin Moores <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moores.martin@gmail.com" target="_blank">moores.martin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On 1 June 2013 07:56, Chris Finley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:debenbain@gmail.com" target="_blank">debenbain@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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</div>You might look at GNU's ddrescue to copy the whole thing to another<br>
drive, it will retry sectors several times in several ways.<br>
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html</a><br><br></blockquote></div><div>+1 for ddrescue, will take a long time to run through a big drive like that, but does a great job<span><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>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. <br>
<br>Thanks for the help and suggestions people. Not sure I want to spend $US89 on spinrite. Not even sure the platters are moving. <br><br>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? <br>
<br><br>[1] not a magic number, just when I happened to press ctrl-c<br></div><br></div>
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