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Hard Drive problem: won t mount
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:59 pm
by Pure L_Archive
Nina wrote:Brought it home, hooked it up and it fried. I thought the first time was bad, but no, this was much worse.
I think I know the answer but I have to ask, what are the odds of any of the data still being intact and recoverable? I have been quoted between $500-1000, with no guarantees of recovery. I would gladly shell out the cash if I thought the data was still there, but I really have my doubts.
So you fried 2 drives from your house? Simply from plugging them in?
Same outlet?
Hard Drive problem: won t mount
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:37 pm
by ipitcher_Archive
I know it's resource intensive, but if you can get your system to boot at all with the drive connected to the SATA bus, maybe you could try using the data dumper ('dd') to read from the block device assigned to the drive without mounting it -- just to see if you can even read data from it.
Hard Drive problem: won t mount
Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:51 pm
by Colonel Panic_Archive
BTW, the hard drive in Marsup's enclosure is actually a 320 GB Western Digital Caviar SE.
Hard Drive problem: won t mount
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:15 am
by Marsupialized_Archive
come on big money no whammy no whammy
Hard Drive problem: won t mount
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 2:33 am
by Colonel Panic_Archive
ipitcher wrote:I know it's resource intensive, but if you can get your system to boot at all with the drive connected to the SATA bus, maybe you could try using the data dumper ('dd') to read from the block device assigned to the drive without mounting it -- just to see if you can even read data from it.
What's the "Data Dumper"? I've never even heard of such a thing. Is it a drive recovery utility? It sounds kinda disgusting.
Hard Drive problem: won t mount
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 10:58 am
by ipitcher_Archive
You're using Linux, right? Try 'man dd' at a shell prompt.
Hard Drive problem: won t mount
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:12 pm
by Abductor
Hey Chunky Soup: You stole a bunch of music online, and now you're fucked. Chalk it up to karma and move on.
Hard Drive problem: won t mount
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 1:45 pm
by Marsupialized_Archive
Abductor wrote:Hey Chunky Soup: You stole a bunch of music online, and now you're fucked. Chalk it up to karma and move on.
thanks for the help, fuckass
Not all of it was stolen, I put all my vinyl and CD's into the computer. Also all the music I have recorded, as in bands I was or am in or solo shit I have recorded over the years.
There was plenty I got off soulseek, don't get me wrong but at least half was shit I had purchased or made over the years.
Hard Drive problem: won t mount
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:12 pm
by r_Archive
My friend, he swears by this such tool:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite
It is hefty expensive! But even with such software he could not rescue this laptop hard drive. I had tried first with one of the other free tools listed on the page -- i think it was ddrescue. I bet him he could not recover the drive, and I was sad to win this bet.
So perhaps you can try this ddrescue and this time I bet that you can get back your data!
Hard Drive problem: won t mount
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2008 12:06 am
by chumpchange_Archive
Colonel Panic wrote:Over the past 15 years or so I have lost 3 hard drives (2 Maxtors and an IBM).
Just had a failure of a 250 GB Maxtor drive that wasn't more that 1 1/2 years old. When I would power it up, it would issue the "click of death" and wouldn't mount. I kept trying every few hours and with luck it didn't click, mounted and I quickly copied everything over to a new Lacie drive. Since then it won't mount no matter what I try, including some pricey data recovery software (used on a trial basis luckily).