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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">If the drive is still running and the
controller is responding, try SpinRite -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm">https://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm</a><br>
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Simon<br>
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On 01/06/2013 07:45, Nick Rout wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CALmzFLZJ_kP_00mZ5=OLZ0EmZ6sAofan7OxuUGFzB3wu=UKQ=A@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">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>
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