> 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.
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> >
> > 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