IBM HDD Problem

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Robert J. Stevens

I have a IBM Travelstar that quit. Drive clicks when I try to access it.
I was able
to see it once on the Laptop when I used HDDREG 1.41. It showed that the
first block
was bad and sat there for awhile. I should have tried to start at 1M but
didnt.
Is there a program out there that will rewrite the MBR [track zero]
without
trying to read first. Other Prgrams I have sych as MBRWORK says read
failed.
I am trying to look at the drive with KNOPPIX right now.
TIA
Bob in Wisconsin
 
Previously Robert J. Stevens said:
I have a IBM Travelstar that quit. Drive clicks when I try to access it.
I was able
to see it once on the Laptop when I used HDDREG 1.41. It showed that the
first block
was bad and sat there for awhile. I should have tried to start at 1M but
didnt.
Is there a program out there that will rewrite the MBR [track zero]
without
trying to read first. Other Prgrams I have sych as MBRWORK says read
failed.
I am trying to look at the drive with KNOPPIX right now.
TIA
Bob in Wisconsin
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Sounds very much like physical damage. If the data on it is important
enough to warrant using a data recovery service, stop messing around
with it now.

If not, I doubt rewriting the MBR will help much. I would rather
advise you to mount it in a PC with an additional disk and to try
to copy it sector-by-sector to a file with dd_rescue (part of knoppix,
is tolerant to read errors and allows offsets). You can then
copy the sector image to a fresh disk and try to find your
partitions in there, e.g. with parted (also in knoppix).
There might be also a possibility to mount a disk-image with
partitions via the loopback device (/dev/loop0 - /dev/loop9,
see 'losetup'), but I am unaware of it at the moment, hence
the advice to copy to a fresh disk.

The important think is once you have that sector image (i.e.
a file in the size of te defect disk, use something like
dd_rescue /dev/<source> target_file to create it), you cannot
loose more date from additional corruption of the original
disk.

Arno
 
If you mess around much with a physically damaged drive you can cause
irretrievable track damage. If your data is worth $500 then buy another
drive and Fedex them both to Nationwide Data Recovery in Miami. They
are the most reasonably priced data recovery service I've seen and
they'll crack open your drive and Ghost the data over to a new drive.
Total cost: $100-$500 depending on how difficult it is to get the data.
They also don't charge if no data is retrieved.

Good luck!

Chad
http://free-backup.info
 
If you mess around much with a physically damaged drive you can cause
irretrievable track damage. If your data is worth $500 then buy another
drive and Fedex them both to Nationwide Data Recovery in Miami. They
are the most reasonably priced data recovery service I've seen and
they'll crack open your drive and Ghost the data over to a new drive.
Total cost: $100-$500 depending on how difficult it is to get the data.
They also don't charge if no data is retrieved.

Good luck!

Chad
http://free-backup.info
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How do I know they're trustworthy, and won't at the same time sell a
copy of the private info on my drive to the underworld of Miami?
 
Heh, that's why you should never save critical information to disk in
the first place.

Protect your data by storing all passwords as sticky notes on your
monitor, keeping your house key under the front-door mat, and etching
your PIN number onto each of your debit cards. Then security is easy --
simply make sure to have the right friends, co-workers and
neighborhood.

Oh, and one more thing. As an upstanding member of the underworld of
Miami, I feel hurt that you would not trust me with your data. ;)

Chad
http://free-backup.info
 
Arno said:
Previously Robert J. Stevens said:
I have a IBM Travelstar that quit. Drive clicks when I try to access it.
I was able to see it once on the Laptop when I used HDDREG 1.41. It showed that the
first block was bad and sat there for awhile. I should have tried to start at 1M but
didnt. Is there a program out there that will rewrite the MBR [track zero]
Click to expand...
without trying to read first. Other Prgrams I have sych as MBRWORK says read
failed. I am trying to look at the drive with KNOPPIX right now.
TIA
Bob in Wisconsin
Click to expand...

Sounds very much like physical damage. If the data on it is important
enough to warrant using a data recovery service, stop messing around
with it now.

If not, I doubt rewriting the MBR will help much. I would rather
advise you to mount it in a PC with an additional disk and to try
to copy it sector-by-sector to a file with dd_rescue
Click to expand...

Arno;
I am not really familier with Knoppix. How does one access "dd_rescue"?
TIA
Bob
 
Previously Robert J. Stevens said:
Arno Wagner wrote:
Previously Robert J. Stevens said:
I have a IBM Travelstar that quit. Drive clicks when I try to access it.
I was able to see it once on the Laptop when I used HDDREG 1.41. It showed that the
first block was bad and sat there for awhile. I should have tried to start at 1M but
didnt. Is there a program out there that will rewrite the MBR [track zero]
Click to expand...
without trying to read first. Other Prgrams I have sych as MBRWORK says read
failed. I am trying to look at the drive with KNOPPIX right now.
TIA
Bob in Wisconsin
Click to expand...

Sounds very much like physical damage. If the data on it is important
enough to warrant using a data recovery service, stop messing around
with it now.

If not, I doubt rewriting the MBR will help much. I would rather
advise you to mount it in a PC with an additional disk and to try
to copy it sector-by-sector to a file with dd_rescue
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Arno;
I am not really familier with Knoppix. How does one access "dd_rescue"?
TIA
Bob
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Sorry. It is a commandline tool. Go to a terminal with root access
(Koppix: crtl-alt-F1 .... ctrl-alt-F4) and start off with

dd_rescue -h

It also has a short website at

http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/

Arno
 
Previously CJT said:
(e-mail address removed) wrote:
How do I know they're trustworthy, and won't at the same time sell a
copy of the private info on my drive to the underworld of Miami?
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You don't. That is one reason you should allways encrypt sensitive
data or put it on an encrypted partition.

Might also be a reason they can offer their services so cheap ;-)

Arno
 
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