Input/Output error in external HDD

DevGrohl · 2015-01-03 21:13:03

Good evening there is problem with the HDD of my brother.
In a big transference of data the system (Window 7 ) froze and he was forced to reboot the system causing an error asking to format the HDD when pluged.

[miguel@einstein~]$ lsblk /dev/sdb
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sdb      8:16   0 465.8G  0 disk
└─sdb1   8:17   0 465.8G  0 part /run/media/miguel/DDE500

[miguel@einstein DDE500]$ df -h /dev/sdb1
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1       466G  464G  2.8G 100% /run/media/miguel/DDE500

Baobab shows this:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-MyUj … 3%3A20.png
[EDIT]

There are 192 GB lost and I'm trying to find a way to recover as much as possible.

Any suggerence?

Thanks.

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Last edited by DevGrohl (2015-01-03 22:23:04)

Slithery · 2015-01-03 21:18:00

Sounds like the drive is dying, I hope you have everything backed up.

What does SMART have to say about it?

Trilby · 2015-01-03 21:23:06

The drive is full. What makes you think there is more of an issue that that?

DevGrohl · 2015-01-03 21:25:09

[miguel@einstein ~]$ sudo smartctl -ax -T permissive  /dev/sdb1
smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [x86_64-linux-3.17.6-1-ARCH] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               ADATA
Product:              HDD SH93
User Capacity:        500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Formatted with type 1 protection
4 protection information intervals per logical block
scsiModePageOffset: response length too short, resp_len=4 offset=4 bd_len=0
>> Terminate command early due to bad response to IEC mode page
Read Cache is:        Unavailable
Writeback Cache is:   Unavailable

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

Error Counter logging not supported

Device does not support Self Test logging
Device does not support Background scan results logging

Mr. Trilby even if the drive is full in df and lsblk I can't access to 192 GB of information that i'm trying to recover.

Trilby · 2015-01-03 22:15:31

DevGrohl wrote:

I can't access to 192 GB of information that i'm trying to recover.

Why not? This is the part you haven't shown us anything about. How are you trying to access that data? What errors do you get when you do?

The only error you mentioned was one from Windows. If you want help troubleshooting Windows errors, this is the wrong place. If you want help troubleshooting errors reading a drive from linux, you need to tell us about those errors.

DevGrohl · 2015-01-03 22:20:44

DevGrohl wrote:

Baobab shows this:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-MyUj … 3%3A20.png
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Baobab shows an input/error message and only recognize 312 GB from 500GB in use.

Archive managers dont show any file in the most important folder.

[miguel@einstein DDE500]$ ls -al Respaldo/Sesiones\ a\ Entregar/
ls: reading directory Respaldo/Sesiones a Entregar/: Input/output error
total 0

Spider.007 · 2015-01-04 13:00:59

Input/output means there's a hardware failure. Get a second drive to restore to and have a look at recovery software such as http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

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Input/Output error in external HDD

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