On October 1, 2020 12:03:34 PM EDT, Bruce Ferrell bferrell@baywinds.org wrote:
On 9/30/20 9:11 AM, H wrote:
On 09/30/2020 12:03 PM, Simon Matter wrote:
Since you have taken the disk apart it will now be useless as
within the
enclosure there could have been a vacuum or an inert gas.
From what I know gas filled disks didn't exist in the times when
3X0GB was
on a 2" drive.
You will never be able to recover any data on the disk unless you
go and
pay for a professional data recovery organisation to read the platters.
No, if he did care that the disks didn't become dirty then the drive should still work quite well to recover what is on it. Of course the
cover
should be put on ASAP. If you don't believe me, just try it our
yourself.
The price for a replacement 340GByte USB disk is about $25 which
would
give you a better product than your old disk.
The OP wanted to recover what is on the disk, not use it as a normal
disk.
Simon
Mark
-----Original Message----- From: H Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 4:47 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] External harddisk
On 09/30/2020 05:40 AM, John Pierce wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 8:33 AM H agents@meddatainc.com wrote:
I have an old external harddisk, Toshiba 320 Gb, with a USB
connector
that I wanted to check for contents. It did not start up when
connected and
I could not hear the motor spinning. After leaving it in the
freezer
overnight the motor spins but it is not recognized by my
computer. I
disassembled it and could see that the head assembly rests
outside the
disk but when it is powered on, the head first moves to the center of
the
disk, then to the periphery and finally back to the resting position.
This
happens every few seconds and leaving it connected overnight
changed
nothing.
That repeated seeking suggests it's not passing its self test, and
is
constantly retrying. It's probably searching for servo data on
the
disks, and not finding it.
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I see. I have not searched for any low-level disk utility from
Toshiba,
the manufacturer of the disk. Do you think that might be worthwhile to hopefully fix this?
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Simon, you are correct in all the above and I replaced the cover as
soon as I had ascertained the movements of the head assembly.
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Opening up disk drives outside of a lab environment is NEVER a good idea if you expect the device to be useful.
I'm thinking this disk problem is tied to your more general usb problem.
There is a guy with a shop in NYC called Louis Rossmann who MAY be able to help with your data recovery. Look him up on youtube or just google the name.
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No. I tried this disk on other computers and it has nothing to do with USB. Further, I have other similar disks which do work on this computer.