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#1 2012-06-09 10:42:33

frostering
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Registered: 2012-01-14
Posts: 8

Hard Disk inaccessible

Hi everybody,

I got a problem with an external hard disk, Western Digital My Book Essential. I was copying some files to the hdd, and then gave me an input/ouput error, and the hard disk never came back since that. Now I can't mount it, windows or linux either. I  dissasembled it and connected directly to a motherboard with a sata cable, but the bios didn't recognize the hdd...

If I connect the hd in Linux, I can't mount it. It's not recognized by the system, I can't try to mount it because it doesn't exist at the /dev/. The only information I got it's:

Jun  9 12:35:14 localhost kernel: [ 3405.575913] usb 4-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
Jun  9 12:35:14 localhost mtp-probe: checking bus 4, device 5: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb4/4-1/4-1.2"
Jun  9 12:35:14 localhost mtp-probe: bus: 4, device: 5 was not an MTP device

I don't know if somebody knows a way to access to the disk, I only wish save the information. I don't care if the disk it's usable again.

Thank you!

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#2 2012-06-10 08:44:57

msx
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Re: Hard Disk inaccessible

Seems your disk's dead, I don't have any forensics experience but it may be difficult to extract any data if your system can't recognize it - although I know WD have ways to recover data from it by disassembling the disk's plates in a specially-controlled vacuum environment and inserting them in a working HD.


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#3 2012-06-10 09:05:43

DSpider
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From: Romania
Registered: 2009-08-23
Posts: 2,273

Re: Hard Disk inaccessible

Golden rule of the information age: always have backups!

Because HDD's can die from somewhere between 1.5 months and 10 years (with an average of 3-5 years).


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#4 2012-06-11 20:06:26

frostering
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Registered: 2012-01-14
Posts: 8

Re: Hard Disk inaccessible

Well, my hard disk it's finally dead. The data recovery costs arround 900€ (~1100$), so I decided to replace it using warranty and forget about recovery all the data (basically I will miss tv shows, because all I lost was that and backups).

Thank you anyway.

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