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dreaded 7200.11

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twitchee2

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So ive been having problems with my drive for a while knowing its inherently a bad drive. It finally bit the dust, says its corrupted all that jazz. I got an RMA # and i will be sending it in today. Anyone have any last minute ideas to get my data off of it? Its not critical data, just all my media, all my personal dvds i stored as iso's etc.

The drive is dectected in the bios and in "my comp" but it says "disk structure is corrupted and unreadable". Any suggestions would be great. thanks.
 
In my opinion the best way is to use ddrescue to an identical or larger drive. This will copy as much of the recoverable data as possible as quickly as possible.

ddrescue is available on any linux livecd. I recommend sysrescuecd for that however. This is a shell program (command line). The difficulty of usage for a non linux person is you need to figure out what are the source and destination drives.

fdisk -l /dev/sd?

should help

or

smartctl --all /dev/sdX

where X=a,b,c ...

or

hdparm -I /dev/sdX

where X=a,b,c ...

The last 2 will give you serial numbers of the drives in your system.

dreaded 7200.11
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At work I have sent Seagate at least 12 of those in the last 12 months.. I now ship 3 to 5 at a time now in the multi drive pack that they send me back..
 
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If the disk is detected in the BIOS as its actual size then you have not fallen victim to the 7200.11 firmware bug, just to a dead drive. If it were showing as 0 GB or spun up and failed to post, then I could help you fix it and get your data back. A $15 USB-TTL adapter is all you would need.
 
yeah ive heard about the adapter and linux fix but thats way to much work for something not very important.

The just a bad drive is a very interesting comment and actually makes alot of sense.
 
twitchee2 said:
yeah ive heard about the adapter and linux fix but thats way to much work for something not very important.

The just a bad drive is a very interesting comment and actually makes alot of sense.
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Actually, you don't even need linux. You can do it from windows and any terminal program (even hyperterminal.) A couple of keystrokes is all it takes for 1 of the fixes, popping off a circuit board for the other type of fix (depending on which fix you need).
 
Lol I love how people read the word Linux and decide whatever is being suggested is automatically too difficult for them. Because typing in a string of text from a website is obviously a much more technical process when Microsoft is not involved.
 
lol its not that it would be too difficuilt its more of i really dont care enough to put the time in to try and get the data off, i already sent the drive out for the RMA.
 
Now that I think of it, I may be mistaken but I think Seagate will pay for data recovery from those drives, it's basically their form of compensation for the fact that those are such epic fail. Look into that. Not sure what the details are, if it was only during a certain time period, or what.
 
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