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2019-03-23 at 2:46 AM UTC in DIY Data Recovery (Power Issue / Unrecognized Drive)
Originally posted by Who https://www.hiren.info/
I'll give this site a look over this weekend too. -
2019-03-23 at 2:46 AM UTC in DIY Data Recovery (Power Issue / Unrecognized Drive)I'm just gonna assume that there is something physically wrong with the PCB interface and start with that when I get a chance in the next few days...
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2019-03-23 at 2:43 AM UTC in DIY Data Recovery (Power Issue / Unrecognized Drive)Also, the physical drive makes no noise or detectable motion whatsoever when plugged in.
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2019-03-23 at 2:43 AM UTC in DIY Data Recovery (Power Issue / Unrecognized Drive)
Originally posted by Lanny I haven't used fdisk much but I don't think it's the usual option for recovery situations, I'd use fsck since it's what I'm used to. I think fdisk gives up if there's any damage to the partition table. Try plugging the drive directly into your mobo (not sure if the external controller can cause problems or not) and run `sudo fsck -A -M` which will run fsck against all the unmounted devices. If it returns nothing at all I would assume something in the hardware is fucked, if it produces actual output there might be something you can do to repair it in software.
Also take note of if the drive physically vibrates when you power on your computer, if you've destroyed some of the drive's circuitry it probably won't ever engage the motor, if it does get the disks spinning that's a good sign.
I have no experience with fsck, and have only used fdisk with one single argument (-l to list available drives in /dev/).
When I do 'sudo fsck -A -M' I just get back:
fsck from util-linux 2.25.2
Like it's just telling me what it is.....
Maybe it's an outdated version.
I tried -h for options and I get:
fsck from util-linux 2.25.2
fsck.ext4: invalid option -- 'h'
Usage: fsck.ext4 [-panyrcdfvtDFV] [-b superblock] [-B blocksize]
[-I inode_buffer_blocks] [-P process_inode_size]
[-l|-L bad_blocks_file] [-C fd] [-j external_journal]
[-E extended-options] device
Emergency help:
-p Automatic repair (no questions)
-n Make no changes to the filesystem
-y Assume "yes" to all questions
-c Check for bad blocks and add them to the badblock list
-f Force checking even if filesystem is marked clean
-v Be verbose
-b superblock Use alternative superblock
-B blocksize Force blocksize when looking for superblock
-j external_journal Set location of the external journal
-l bad_blocks_file Add to badblocks list
-L bad_blocks_file Set badblocks list
And I have to admit I'm way out of my element here and am paranoid about mucking anything up. -
2019-03-23 at 2:12 AM UTC in Dear Karen, this is Zanick.Zanick is one of the few remaining diehard hopeless romantics in this day and age that has been absolutely corrupted by the dry, mechanical, soulless era of Tinder and the like.
And Karen is the object of his affection.
Like recognizes like, and so I see the Zanick-Karen dichotomy as one that is all to familiar to another member of this dying breed.
His appreciation for Karen should be an inspiration to us all.
The magnitude of the flames ignited by these embers of love is more than enough to make Cupid himself blush.
I know because I have experienced such potent flames myself for a lost love.
Godspeed, comrade Zanick.
The vicissitudes of fate have had their say, and it is a tale with a happy ending in sight. It is only a matter of time until Karen is in your company.
It's a love that will withstand a thousand bans. -
2019-03-23 at 2:02 AM UTC in Pussy power consists of endorphin addiction
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2019-03-23 at 1:55 AM UTC in DIY Data Recovery (Power Issue / Unrecognized Drive)
Originally posted by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Replace what?
The bit that is integral to the drive or what?
Why? What is the failure condition? Sure it isn't just the drive motor or a lack of voltage or whatever?
What noise does it make?
It makes no noise at all.
And it's no longer in its original enclosure.
It looks just like any internal drive right now.
I have actually recovered data from dozens of drives, both internal and external, over the years.
This one is a special case altogether.
Usually, by providing a power supply directly to the PCB and an SATA-to-USB cable, its enough to get a Windows machine to recognize it and assign it a letter and give Windows Explorer access to it.
But this time, no such luck. And I tried Linux as well.
The only thing left to try (before swapping PCB boards on the drive), is Vinny's suggestion about hooking it up via internal SATA and power connectors, and possibly modifying some BIOS settings).
Since my desktop PC was $3,000, I don't want to start swapping any hardware right now after I've been drinking. I *might* try it tomorrow though, with proper grounding protocol to avoid surges etc. -
2019-03-23 at 1:46 AM UTC in The Self Taught Man = ?
Originally posted by Grylls people actually read that shit? i was just wondering how that account has 155k posts.
I asked that exact same question myself when I first found this site (former Totse/Zoklet user myself as well - just out of the loop for a while).
https://niggasin.space/thread/31288 -
2019-03-23 at 1:39 AM UTC in DIY Data Recovery (Power Issue / Unrecognized Drive)
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2019-03-23 at 1:37 AM UTC in DIY Data Recovery (Power Issue / Unrecognized Drive)
Originally posted by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Enclosure = the thing that plugs into the SCSI interface. Not everything besides the physical platters of the hard drive itself.
New enclosures are like $5 or something.
I tried a $30 enclosure from Best Buy (there aren't a lot of local computer stores here, and I didn't want to wait for one to ship online).
It didn't work.
Originally posted by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Do you even have a linux desktop that you can plug the SCSI into?
I hooked it up to a Raspberry Pi and ran the command "sudo fdisk -l", but it found nothing.
(Using the following physical connection to the RPi):
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2019-03-23 at 1:34 AM UTC in DIY Data Recovery (Power Issue / Unrecognized Drive)
This part, right?
I can replace that... worst case scenario it's like $200-$250 tops if I have to buy an entirely new (identical) drive.
I'm absolutely willing to do that (it's cheaper than sending it away and paying like $2000). -
2019-03-23 at 1:33 AM UTC in DIY Data Recovery (Power Issue / Unrecognized Drive)
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny im sorry to tell you this but i think the power board is fried.
19volts going into a 12volt receptacle is very much like "child abuse".
if your lucky it could be saved by doing a circuit board swap, not sure if recalibration is needed.
That the small PCB unit that interfaces between the magnetic plate reader arm, etc and the ports for connecting to any other device, right?
I'm straight up willing to pay $200-$250 this weekend to buy an exact physical replica (brand new, of course) of my current (broken) drive simply to swap the that part out.
I'm thinking that's gotta work.
What else could it possibly be? -
2019-03-23 at 1:28 AM UTC in DIY Data Recovery (Power Issue / Unrecognized Drive)
Originally posted by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Just to be clear, are you sure it's the drive and not just the enclosure that's at fault?
If you don't have anything important - like a bitcoin wallet - on the drive why care so much?
Maybe just forgetting about it all and torrenting it all again as needed is logical.
What format was the disk written in?
A cheap clean room is outside. The nordic air is surprisingly clean this time of year.
It's 100% the data I'm concerned with.
I even considered buying a brand new identical physical drive (>$200) just to swap enclosures, even if I literally just toss out the brand new HD inside.
The majority of it untorrentable.
Personal multimedia (like sentimental photos and videos, journal entries, some snippets of code I've jotted down for later use - a lot of my code is preserved via git-based version control across multiple devices, but not all of it, etc). I also keep an idea scrap book for various kinds of projects.
I will go to a loan shark if I have to to be able to afford a couple grand to retrieve the data. It's an absolute must. -
2019-03-23 at 1:17 AM UTC in DIY Data Recovery (Power Issue / Unrecognized Drive)
Originally posted by Methuselah Damn that’s pretty fucked dude.
And you still picked a Seagate drive huh
I have had decent luck with Seagate so far.
I have a 1TB slim/portable Seagate drive that is still going strong like 4-5 years later.
I did just now learn a valuable lesson about backing things up more frequently (ironically, I've recently been writing my own custom automation backup script, and it's almost done... a few days too late apparently). -
2019-03-23 at 1:13 AM UTC in DIY Data Recovery (Power Issue / Unrecognized Drive)The literal distinct file count is several million.
I'm a digital hoarder.
You know those people they do documentaries and reality TV series' on where they have homes full of the most ridiculous shit like old newspapers and junk mail and various and sundry knick knacks?
I'm the literal digital embodiment of that.
I scan all incoming paper mail and file it away, and going back close to 20 years.
Old emails, again, going back 20 years.
I do a manual backup every few months, but a few months of worth of data, for a legitimate (digital) hoarder like me, is a lot, and it will bug me until I recover it, no matter the cost. -
2019-03-23 at 1:09 AM UTC in DIY Data Recovery (Power Issue / Unrecognized Drive)And that's assuming they're gonna sit there and comb through 8TB of documents, photos, archived porn, mp3's, web pages I save to read later (I don't trust bookmarks because sites go down, so I have lots and lots of HTML files in my "to read" folders), etc.
That seems way too time consuming to me.
But I have no idea what their protocol is. -
2019-03-23 at 1:07 AM UTC in DIY Data Recovery (Power Issue / Unrecognized Drive)Porn-wise, they'll just discover that I have a thing for some at-times extreme femdom, and might give me some funny looks for that when I go to pick the drive up.
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2019-03-23 at 1:05 AM UTC in DIY Data Recovery (Power Issue / Unrecognized Drive)
Originally posted by Methuselah How much bitcoin/child porn did u lose.
Jk
lol.
It really is just sentimental stuff mostly (photos, journal entries - yes I write in a journal like a teenage girl, don't judge me, and not to mention literally every financial document or digital communication since my last backup a few months ago).
Although one thing I am a tad paranoid about is that, among those 8TB of data, there is some pirated movie downloads, as well as a few other copyright-violating things... Do professional recovery services have to report stuff like that? -
2019-03-23 at 1:03 AM UTC in DIY Data Recovery (Power Issue / Unrecognized Drive)If that's the case though, it might just have fried the small piece of PCB that stands between the SATA + power connectors and the the actual HD itself, right?
That sounds at least promising?
Finding out I might have to pay a substantial fee to get my data back is a bit devastating, but if it's at least theoretically salvageable, it'll significantly brighten my day compared to the alternative. -
2019-03-23 at 1:01 AM UTC in DIY Data Recovery (Power Issue / Unrecognized Drive)
