> On Thursday 10 September 2020 10:44:42 BorgLabs - Kate Draven via tde-users > wrote: > > > On Thursday 10 September 2020 10:27:38 BorgLabs - Kate Draven via > > > tde-users > > > > > > wrote: > > > > On Thursday 10 September 2020, William Morder via tde-users wrote: > > > > > Hello again! > > > > > > > > > > I told you that you'd miss me when I'm gone. :-] > > > > > > > > > > Please, I need recommendations or strategies for recovering data. I > > > > > had > > > > a > > > > > > > flash drive become unreadable, after I plugged it into my new printer > > > > > to print out some documents that had been long in waiting. Then, > > > > > before I could save myself, I had a 1.5 TB hard drive also fail. On > > > > > this hard drive is (of course) the source of those backup copies on > > > > > the flash drive. This is the partition which I was just about to > > > > > backup. > > > > > > > > > > I have several hard drives, from 200 GB up to 8 TB, from 20 years old > > > > > to brand-new; all are WD, except for one which is Seagate. Guess > > > > > which one failed? I forget when I got it, or why I ever would have > > > > > got anything > > > > but > > > > > > > WD, or why I would have put anything important there. > > > > > > > > > > I have used ddrescue to try to recover the data, as well as other > > > > > forensics tools. Recovered images (img and iso) are saved, and taking > > > > > up space, but I cannot determine if there is any useful content in > > > > > what was recovered. The failing partition has not been deleted. It > > > > > cannot be read or mounted, so I have just left it like that, so that > > > > > I can try to save it. > > > > > > > > > > Every attempt to recover the data gives the same result: 2 errors, > > > > > 3072 B, that cannot be read. I tried using tools to look inside the > > > > > saved iso image, but no luck there. I don't want to erase or format > > > > > the failing disk partition until I am sure that I have recovered the > > > > > data. > > > > > > > > > > My last hope is that I have another 1.5 TB hard drive; I could try to > > > > > write the disk images to that partition before I format the old > > > > > drive. But first, of course, I would need to backup materials from > > > > > that drive, and now I am running out of space again. > > > > > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > P.S. And if things were not bad enough, the skies here in San > > > > > Francisco are a muddy mixture of orange, black, brown and gray. At > > > > > noon today, it looked like the middle of the night. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > tde-users mailing list -- users@... > > > > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@... > > > > > Web mail archive available at > > > > https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydes > > > > > > >kt op.org > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > There's another option but a wee bit expensive. > > > > > > > > Purchase the same model SG drive (or whatever model etc) that failed > > > > and swap out the electronics. > > > > > > > > Assuming there's no mechanical damage, it will work. > > > > It's often why I buy drives in pairs. > > > > > > > > Hope this was helpful. > > > > > > > > Kate > > > > > > It is an internal hard drive, not external. Is that what you mean? > > > > > > Bill > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > I understand. I mean swap out the IDE boards on the drives. > > Make sure to mark the bad one so you don't try to reuse it. > > > > I've done that only a few times but it works. They must be the same model. > > > > Kate > > I do have another 1.5 TB hard drive (though I would need to backup its data > first); however, it is WD, not Seagate, and I would not willingly buy another > Seagate hard drive. > > Bill > _______________________________________________ You can't mix boards. They must be the same make and model. Perhaps you can buy just the board? Or a used working one? I've used both SG and WD and have had far more failures with WD. I guess it depends on the models and how they are used? I currently have nearly all SG drives in the "big machine" the server. 12 drives in total with no failures over the last 10 years. Kate