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On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 10 October 2010 04:58:04 Fatih Tümen wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 12:15 AM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > Will fdisk read and recognize the partition table on the USB disk? If |
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>> > fdisk results in disk read errors then I'd begin to think more about |
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>> > 'hardware' :( |
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>> No "Unable to read /dev/sda" is what fdisk says. I never had a disk |
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>> (hardware) failure before. Is there no way to extract data from it? |
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> The noise you're describing is indicative of mechanical failure. |
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That I was fearing but I cant understand how it can fail all of a |
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sudden. I did not drop it or something. Just ran eix and boom. Would |
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you call it a coincidence of running eix with the best before date of |
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the disk? |
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> Unless your PC can access the drive (dmesg will show what the kernel sees) |
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> then there is no easy way of getting the data out of it. |
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> I have heard of people opening the USB enclosure of external drives and |
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> removing the drive, which they then installed in a laptop. However, these |
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> were cases where the USB controller was faulty, rather than the moving |
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> elements of the drive itself. |
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I tried that to a friend laptop's dead drive. It Didt work. I am |
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afraid im in a similar situation here. |
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> If you had access to a forensics lab you could even take the platters out of |
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> the drive itself and read them on platter reader. On the other hand, if you |
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> only had ccache, distfiles and packages a resync with a new external drive |
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> will get you a working system again. |
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I actually thought about that too. There is a forensic lab quite close |
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to me but I doubt that they would bother with this or whether it would |
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worth the effort. |
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> Before you head for the shops you would at least want to try another USB cable |
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> as Walter suggested, just in case. |
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I found the cable and tried. Same! |
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Anyway thanks for the suggestion. |
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