USB Memory Stick Recovery

From:	koswix	30 Mar 2015 22:50
To:	Chris (CHRISSS)	36 of 77

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Never tried it, but sounds like it's dead anyway so no harm in giving it a shot.


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From:	Chris (CHRISSS)	30 Mar 2015 23:07
To:	koswix	37 of 77

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I'm pretty sure it did work. Had a HDD that couldn't be read in Windows, froze it and when I took it out of the freezer it worked for a little while, long enough to get some data off. It does look like the drive is dead unfortunately. Nothing backed up from it, years of stuff on there :S Worth a shot at putting it in the freezer. Me

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From:	Chris (CHRISSS)	31 Mar 2015 00:42
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Wonderful. I can access the recovery partition fine but the rest just doesn't seem to work :( Me

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From:	Chris (CHRISSS)	31 Mar 2015 06:35
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Freezer didn't help. Same thing this morning. Maybe it wasn't in there long enough. More likely it's DEAD. Me

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	31 Mar 2015 07:53
To:	Chris (CHRISSS)	40 of 77

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But the recovery partition still works? dd the whole device to an image. ┌─────┐ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ └─┘

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From:	Chris (CHRISSS)	31 Mar 2015 07:59
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Seems to. I could access the files in the recovery partition from Linux. The other partition showed the size and space used but couldn't shoe any contents. Worth a try making an image. I'll try and find a HDD large enough when I get home and see if it will work. Me

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	31 Mar 2015 08:18
To:	Chris (CHRISSS)	42 of 77

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Data could well be in tact just the FAT is damaged (if it still works like that for NTFS). ┌─────┐ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ │ │ │ │ ┌─┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ │ └─┘ └─┘

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From:	Chris (CHRISSS)	31 Mar 2015 08:40
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I think if that's all it was then GetDataBack would have done something. The drive is making funny noises too which definitely isn't a good sign. Me

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	31 Mar 2015 10:14
To:	Chris (CHRISSS)	44 of 77

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Sounds like physical damage to actuator(s) and/or platter(s). ---- "Apple Pay accepted at up to 100,000 Coca-Cola machines"

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From:	Chris (CHRISSS)	31 Mar 2015 12:14
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Definitely looks (and sounds) that way. I don't think there's much I can do with it :( Me

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	31 Mar 2015 16:53
To:	Chris (CHRISSS)	46 of 77

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Can you run a mfg diagnostic on it, or get smart info? ---- "Apple Pay accepted at up to 100,000 Coca-Cola machines"

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From:	Mizzy	31 Mar 2015 17:54
To:	Chris (CHRISSS)	47 of 77

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Try spinrite at grc.com also available by Jim, I've had some success rescuing disks even encrypted ones.

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From:	Chris (CHRISSS)	31 Mar 2015 18:03
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Looks interesting. Worth a try. Thanks. Me

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From:	Chris (CHRISSS)	31 Mar 2015 18:04
To:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	49 of 77

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It's a Hitachi drive. Not sure if their fitness test program is going to be much help. Me

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From:	graphitone	31 Mar 2015 19:23
To:	Chris (CHRISSS)	50 of 77

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Maybe try Hitachi's seatools, it worked for us once when recovering a drive, but that wasn't hardware related. :/ Drawings n' that

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	31 Mar 2015 20:26
To:	ALL	51 of 77

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FWIW I had two desktop hdds (apparently) fail in that my pc was rendered unbootable with them (it wouldn't even post), and they made loud clicking noises. However after I stuck them in usb enclosures they are completely accessible, including all ntfs and linux partitions, and no data was lost. Also, no clicking. One was a Seagate and the other WD. I still have them on tap, as backups of all the 'dispensible' stuff I couldn't be bothered to copy over to the replacement. TBH I think my motherboard could have been the culprit moreso than the actual drives. The most recent hdd has been running a bit longer than the other two did, without the issue manifesting so far. I'm creeping myself out even typing this. :-@ ---- "Apple Pay accepted at up to 100,000 Coca-Cola machines"

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From:	Chris (CHRISSS)	31 Mar 2015 21:15
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SpinRite is going really slowly. Been running a couple of hours now and only read about 16MB of 240GB. Gonna take a while. I wonder if it will help though. Me

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From:	Chris (CHRISSS)	1 Apr 2015 00:13
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Fucking /WONDERFUL/!!! :@ I spilled wine over my laptop's keyboard and screen! Luckily only a little bit got between the display and case. Washed the keyboard, gonna give it a bit of time to dry out before using it. Me

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From:	Peter (BOUGHTONP)	1 Apr 2015 00:21
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Have you removed the battery to be safe? `3.1415P265E589T932E846R64338`

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	1 Apr 2015 00:31
To:	Chris (CHRISSS)	55 of 77

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Came home to my biannual can' t boot grubs hosed and maybe so's the partition table. After the usual ministrations all came up good. Then I nearly drenched the keyboard attempting to pour an ice-choked can of IPA into an ill-judged glass. This ain't even Fri 13th. On the good side I subsequently beat the gangsters in the Dead Island supermarket & picked up an M16-alike for my troubles. ---- "Apple Pay accepted at up to 100,000 Coca-Cola machines"

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