[ale] HDD Locked Up - Wife business pics in it!

[Jim Kinney]

Have at least as much storage available as the dead drive and run
photorec NOW. It will try and try and try to pull what it can off the
drive. You don't need to care about what failed, only how fast can you
pull off the pictures :-)

(This is the perfect situation to have had a mirror drive with 2
different makes/models of drives)

On Fri, 2019-12-13 at 12:30 -0500, Sergio Chaves via Ale wrote:
> So, here is where I am now...
> After trying several things, I ended up using a USB docking station (
> bios in two PCs gave me errors and failed to boot as SATA). I then
> loaded an older version of lubuntu (CentOS 7 and both Ubuntu 18.4 and
> Mint "Tina" failed to mount it regardless of what I tried) and
> created a file "ignore_uas.conf" in the modprobe.d following the
> directions here:  
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1029544/seagate-2t-external-hard-drive-can-not-be-mounted-detected-by-lsusb-but-not-by/1184394#1184394
>  
> 
> I was then able to see the drive.
> The dd command says "error reading /dev/sdb : Input/Output error"
> 
> SMARTCTL says:
> Failing attribute-32
> Failing attribute-48
> Pre-Fail (but OK status) attribute-51
> Attributes 105, 120, 127, and 254 = Old-Age but with an OK status.
> Attribute 255 = Pre-Fail and with a "Failed in the Past" status
> 
> Help?
> 
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2019, 8:56 AM Sam Rakowski <devnull at iamdevnull.info>
> wrote:
> > When you boot to a recovery cd:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > * Can you dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null and transfer any data at all?
> > 
> > * What does 'smartctl -a /dev/sdX' tell you, if anything?
> > 
> > * What's in the syslog when you try either?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Also, recovery-wise, around how much data are you looking to
> > (hopefully) recover?
> > 
> > Sent via BlackBerry
> > 
> 
> _______________________________________________Ale mailing 
> listAle at ale.org
> https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
> 
-- 
James P. Kinney III

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you
gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his
own tail. It won't fatten the dog.
- Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain

http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20191213/3bf7eb30/attachment.html>