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
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>>
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
>
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list -
PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
(text/plain)