I put mine in an air tight bag in the freezer for a few hours, than took it out, mounted it quick, and was then able to recover most of my data.  This has worked on several drives.

Daniel

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
I don't think my USB cable is that long!

Mark

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 7:02 AM, Shawn Badger <shawn@badger.pro> wrote:
Put the drive in a freezer

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
I think you mean ddrescue? I have been running it for a few days and getting lots of errors.

GNU ddrescue 1.17
Press Ctrl-C to interrupt
rescued:   328577 MB,  errsize:  85901 MB,  current rate:   12047 kB/s
   ipos:   414478 MB,   errors:     321,    average rate:    6771 kB/s
   opos:   414478 MB,    time since last successful read:       0 s
Copying non-tried blocks...

Any suggestions on how to cool the usb drive with the errors. I have it flat on a cold large faux granite desk surface which is very cold to the touch. But the drive is still very warm.

Thanks!

Mark

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 6:48 PM, George Toft <george@georgetoft.com> wrote:
There is a special version of dd that will retry on bad sectors and try to formulate a best guess for the bad sector.  I've used it with some success - took about 2 weeks to recover a 300GB drive.  I also had to keep it refrigerated.
Regards,

George Toft
On 12/19/2015 9:32 AM, Stephen Partington wrote:

There is an application called test disk that might be handy for data recovery. But this looks like your drive is in bad shape.

On Dec 19, 2015 9:25 AM, "Mark Phillips" <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
I have a 2 TB WD USB drive that I formated with NTFS. I have a rather extensive movie/TV library on it for my plex media server, and I am getting read errors. I hope I haven't lost all of that data! It has been attached to one of my Netgear wireless access points, hence the need for NTFS.

fdisk -l gives for the drive
/dev/sdc1            2048  3906963455  1953480704    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

I tried running smartctl on the device, (which is now plugged into a usb 3.0 port on my laptop) and got this error after a few tests

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Short offline       Completed: read failure       90%     10086         494859396
# 2  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       90%     10073         494859396
# 3  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       90%     10072         494859396
# 4  Short offline       Completed: read failure       90%     10072         494859396

I noticed this in the attributes section of smartctl -
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       122
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   202   200   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       4891
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       464
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   087   087   000    Old_age   Always       -       10086
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       40
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       17
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   198   198   000    Old_age   Always       -       6187
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   121   102   000    Old_age   Always       -       31
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       31
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0

Any thoughts on how I can fix this drive, or do I need to get a new one? What is the best way to copy the contents of the drive with these errors to a new drive?

Thanks!

Mark

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