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| 1118253 | 2010-07-19 08:19:00 | Apparently external USB enclosures only like to see one partition? Anyway, I ended up with a guy at work who has Spinrite looking at it. His diagnosis was the on-board disk controller was stuffed, so I have kissed it goodbye. Thanks for your suggestions, guys. (we can't win 'em all) |
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| 1118254 | 2010-07-19 08:40:00 | I have an External USB 200 Gig drive here with two partitions. No probs reading either partition. | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1118255 | 2010-07-19 09:13:00 | I have an External USB 200 Gig drive here with two partitions. No probs reading either partition. Is this with IDE or SATA ? also NTFS ? |
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| 1118256 | 2010-07-19 09:18:00 | IDE in enclosure and NTFS file system. | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1118257 | 2010-07-19 12:13:00 | Apparently external USB enclosures only like to see one partition? Anyway, I ended up with a guy at work who has Spinrite looking at it. His diagnosis was the on-board disk controller was stuffed, so I have kissed it goodbye. Thanks for your suggestions, guys. (we can't win 'em all) The fact that you get as far as the partitions showing but listed as "RAW" tells me that there may be nothing wrong with the board. Spinrite makes for a good hard drive stress tester but that's about it. If you want to actually try and recover data, you need something which will copy data to a known working drive. If you do suspect the drive is faulty then it's best to image with Gnu DDrescue or such first, then mount and scan the resulting image with a data recovery program. The more work you make a faulty drive do the quicker it will deteriorate. |
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