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Recovering an External HDD that is no longer readable
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<blockquote data-quote="juan" data-source="post: 801968" data-attributes="member: 2499"><p>Try to boot a computer with only the suspected drive connected and boot with Linux live or Rescue disk as R_J posted, in terminal run ( fdisk -l ) that should display the disk as /dev/sda ? with one or more partitions. If the partitions display then you can try to run Testdisk but with a 2nd drive with free space connected and mounted. List the missing partition with Testdisk and copy the data to extra drive if you can. </p><p>In a Linux live setup you can run DiskUtils and inspect the drives SMART status ( smartmontools for terminal ) if any bad sectors is listed then get your data of if you can and dump the drive. </p><p>But don't spend to much time if your data is critical and you don't know what you are doing that normally ad more stress to read/write heads if they are busy failing</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="juan, post: 801968, member: 2499"] Try to boot a computer with only the suspected drive connected and boot with Linux live or Rescue disk as R_J posted, in terminal run ( fdisk -l ) that should display the disk as /dev/sda ? with one or more partitions. If the partitions display then you can try to run Testdisk but with a 2nd drive with free space connected and mounted. List the missing partition with Testdisk and copy the data to extra drive if you can. In a Linux live setup you can run DiskUtils and inspect the drives SMART status ( smartmontools for terminal ) if any bad sectors is listed then get your data of if you can and dump the drive. But don't spend to much time if your data is critical and you don't know what you are doing that normally ad more stress to read/write heads if they are busy failing [/QUOTE]
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