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

Simon Hobson linux at thehobsons.co.uk
Sat Jun 1 17:00:00 UTC 2013


Nick Rout wrote:
> I have removed it from the backend and attached it to my laptop with a USB/Sata Bridge

Stick it back in the backend (or any computer with a direct SATA connection and run "smartctl -a /dev/sdx" - it'll tell you the state of the drive. You can't do this through SATA/USB (or SATA/Firewire) bridges as they don't seem to support SMART tools.


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