Re: [Bug-ddrescue] Bug-ddrescue Digest, Vol 87, Issue 9

[Seth Baker]

Sounds like the service area of the drive is damaged and the drive not starting all the way up in ready mode. The service area saves parameters of the drive, the firmware and service area is loaded on startup, except the service area is in a non addressable part of the drive. Many data recovery companies use equimpemnt like Deepspar (starts at about $10,000) to bypass the startup and start coping sectors. My estimate it is about $800 to $1500 to have a company recover data on a drive like this.

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   1.  Error size? (des1)
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Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:38:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: des1 <address@hidden>
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Subject: [Bug-ddrescue]  Error size?
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I have a WD 2tb hdd which recently failed, it makes a clicking noise but
still spins. It is found in the bios, device manager and in linux but I cant
mount the disk and it gives 49 currently unreadable sectors. I tried dd
rescue onto my 3tb ntfs hdd with the following command  ddrescue -f -d -r3
/dev/xxx /dev/yyy /path/to/logfile it starts up but nothing transfers it
gets 1 error and this error goes up to a size of 2tb?? then tries Trimming
but this also this is to no avail. Is this hdd declared dead? Should i now
try the freezer trick? Any help would be appreciated.
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:40:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: des1 <address@hidden>
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I have a WD 2tb hdd which recently failed, it makes a clicking noise but
still spins. It is found in the bios, device manager and in linux but I cant
mount the disk and it gives 49 currently unreadable sectors. I tried dd
rescue onto my 3tb ntfs hdd with the following command  ddrescue -f -d -r3
/dev/xxx /dev/yyy /path/to/logfile it starts up but nothing transfers it
gets 1 error and this error goes up to a size of 2tb?? then tries Trimming
but this also this is to no avail. Is this hdd declared dead? Should i now
try the freezer trick? Any help would be appreciated.
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:42:56 -0700 (PDT)
From: des1 <address@hidden>
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Subject: [Bug-ddrescue]  Error Size?
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I have a WD 2tb hdd which recently failed, it makes a clicking noise but
still spins. It is found in the bios, device manager and in linux but I cant
mount the disk and it gives 49 currently unreadable sectors. I tried dd
rescue onto my 3tb ntfs hdd with the following command  ddrescue -f -d -r3
/dev/xxx /dev/yyy /path/to/logfile it starts up but nothing transfers it
gets 1 error and this error goes up to a size of 2tb?? then tries Trimming
but this also is to no avail. Is this hdd declared dead? Should i now try
the freezer trick? Any help would be appreciated.
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:45:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: des1 <address@hidden>
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Subject: [Bug-ddrescue]  Error Size?
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I have a WD 2tb hdd which recently failed, it makes a clicking noise but
still spins. It is found in the bios, device manager and in linux but I cant
mount the disk and it gives 49 currently unreadable sectors. I tried dd
rescue onto my 3tb ntfs hdd with the following command  ddrescue -f -d -r3
/dev/xxx /dev/yyy /path/to/logfile it starts up but nothing transfers it
gets 1 error and this error goes up to a size of 2tb?? then tries Trimming
but this also is to no avail. Is this hdd declared dead? Should i now try
the freezer trick? Any help would be appreciated.
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