ChewbaccaIamYourFather
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I had this Seagate Baracuda ST35003200AS 500GB, it been lying down for years with a "LED CC" error(it was a notorious screw-up from Seagate back in the 2010s). In 2013 the disk stopped being detected by the system. It was due to some firmware bug.
Now I finally managed to bring it back to life(with rs232-ttl cable and a few tutorials), but the disk is seeing RAW on Windows and asking to create new table, which I ofc didnt. On Linux it cant be mounted, but at least disks utility and lsblk show 2 partitions. Both on LINUX and Windows when ussing TESTDISK I managed to see some part of filesystem, and even recover some files with photorec (about 7gb).
But the problem is that when I try to copy or clone the disk with ddrescue it stuck at 1.43% and the rest files are read errors. The TESTDISK when analyzing the partitions it gives:
Disk /dev/sdd - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 60801 255 63
Analyse cylinder 26110/60800: 42%
so it stuck at 42% (btw I dont know if that 42% related to the whole disk capacity or only the cylinder, because its strange why the disk cant recover more than 1.43% if it stuck on 42%, there are a lot of space from 1.43 to 42).
Now i have another problem: after some 15-20 sec after being plugged the disk is kinda turn itself off so hddsuperclone cant finish cloning - or maybe its because it got onto 1.43% sector and kinda send to the disk I'm out and the disk as well, Im out too. idk. Or it cant read after 1.43 because the disk turns off??? (though i recovered the disk multiple times and every time its on 1.43, so cant be the timing)
Is there some possible ways to clone the disk without bad cylinder area? I read something about recover partitions with hyperterminal command m0,2,2,,1 or something. Or maybe TESTDISK have some advanced features?
Sorry for the long post.
Now I finally managed to bring it back to life(with rs232-ttl cable and a few tutorials), but the disk is seeing RAW on Windows and asking to create new table, which I ofc didnt. On Linux it cant be mounted, but at least disks utility and lsblk show 2 partitions. Both on LINUX and Windows when ussing TESTDISK I managed to see some part of filesystem, and even recover some files with photorec (about 7gb).
But the problem is that when I try to copy or clone the disk with ddrescue it stuck at 1.43% and the rest files are read errors. The TESTDISK when analyzing the partitions it gives:
Disk /dev/sdd - 500 GB / 465 GiB - CHS 60801 255 63
Analyse cylinder 26110/60800: 42%
so it stuck at 42% (btw I dont know if that 42% related to the whole disk capacity or only the cylinder, because its strange why the disk cant recover more than 1.43% if it stuck on 42%, there are a lot of space from 1.43 to 42).
Now i have another problem: after some 15-20 sec after being plugged the disk is kinda turn itself off so hddsuperclone cant finish cloning - or maybe its because it got onto 1.43% sector and kinda send to the disk I'm out and the disk as well, Im out too. idk. Or it cant read after 1.43 because the disk turns off??? (though i recovered the disk multiple times and every time its on 1.43, so cant be the timing)
Is there some possible ways to clone the disk without bad cylinder area? I read something about recover partitions with hyperterminal command m0,2,2,,1 or something. Or maybe TESTDISK have some advanced features?
Sorry for the long post.
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