broken external HD
broken external HD
Hi,
last night a 4 TB Seagate HD dropped (well, the cat jumped and...). It seems it is broken. When I connect it to the laptop, the laptop does not recognize it. The blue light on the HD goes on. The HD seems to start working, I can feel the vibration. Listening closely is sounds like a wheel is scratching 2-3 times and all stops.
As I was backing up stuff, there is data I need on it. I assume there is not much chance to get it done in Siem Reap or in PP. But maybe there is and asking does not cost anything. Does anyone have an idea what could be done?
last night a 4 TB Seagate HD dropped (well, the cat jumped and...). It seems it is broken. When I connect it to the laptop, the laptop does not recognize it. The blue light on the HD goes on. The HD seems to start working, I can feel the vibration. Listening closely is sounds like a wheel is scratching 2-3 times and all stops.
As I was backing up stuff, there is data I need on it. I assume there is not much chance to get it done in Siem Reap or in PP. But maybe there is and asking does not cost anything. Does anyone have an idea what could be done?
My best bet would be to ship it to Thailand or Singapore. Try to contact ThaiCert / ETDA and ask them what place they can recommend :
https://www.thaicert.or.th/contact-en.html
https://www.etda.or.th/en/
These gigs are usually not cheap. If your drive was on while it dropped to the floor the platters could have beed damaged from the head. This could affect successful recovery of the data e.g. don't expect all data fully recoverable. For now do not spin it up or try to read from it as this can worsen the condition. First get in touch with a decent company and they will tell you what you should/shouldn't do + give a quote on recovery costs.
https://www.thaicert.or.th/contact-en.html
https://www.etda.or.th/en/
These gigs are usually not cheap. If your drive was on while it dropped to the floor the platters could have beed damaged from the head. This could affect successful recovery of the data e.g. don't expect all data fully recoverable. For now do not spin it up or try to read from it as this can worsen the condition. First get in touch with a decent company and they will tell you what you should/shouldn't do + give a quote on recovery costs.
Yup, was working. I need to see what i can recover from other drives and then form an idea of what to do. A good company in Boston is a bit far away and these things take time.
THanks for the advice
THanks for the advice
It's not a backup if it's the only copy of the data. Too late for you but for anyone else reading this, go backup your data.
I am slowly regaining my mental sanity and minimal brain functions. Yesterday, I was shocked and depressed. Almost killed that cat. It was like a scene in a movie.
I was transferring data from a HD that I do no longer trust to the external HD. After that I planned to duplicate the external HD.
Now it occurred to me that I might be able to recover the data from the still operative original HD as the files had been deleted in the recycle bin or cut and moved to the external HD. I hope that this will work faster and I might be out of trouble. I am using some shareware from download dot com for the moment running a deep scan.
I was transferring data from a HD that I do no longer trust to the external HD. After that I planned to duplicate the external HD.
Now it occurred to me that I might be able to recover the data from the still operative original HD as the files had been deleted in the recycle bin or cut and moved to the external HD. I hope that this will work faster and I might be out of trouble. I am using some shareware from download dot com for the moment running a deep scan.
Avoid cut and paste. Fuck knows where everything goes if the move stops for any reason.
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Copy and paste?
Yes, copy across and only delete the source when you are sure the copy was successful. Also, don't delete a copy unless there are at least two others in existence.
There backup tools you can get will report the success of copy actions, compare directories, clone drives or partitions, etc. It's all much cheaper than sending an hdd to a professional service in Thailand.
There backup tools you can get will report the success of copy actions, compare directories, clone drives or partitions, etc. It's all much cheaper than sending an hdd to a professional service in Thailand.
One only ever loses critical data once. Then they learn how to backup.
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After a few external HDD failures, I'm going to solid state drives now that they've dropped enough in price. And have two backups.
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I find SSD Drives incredibly slow to read/right too (top of the range Del XPS) External USB3 hard drive is way faster.