Segate ST31000340AS Issue

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blazemonkey

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I rebooted my desktop today, and the device was missing from the POST screen. i had to power down for it to sho up. after i booted back up the drive was in the POST screen byt now windows says that all partitions on that 1TB disk have to be formatted again. this did not happen with other disks in the system.. any one have any ideas to restore data from this disk or fix the partition table??
 
Heres what i find in the advanced menu

Code: 
TestDisk 6.10, Data Recovery Utility, July 2008
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sdb - 33 MB / 31 MiB - CHS 32 32 63

     Partition                  Start        End    Size in sectors
 1 P MS Reserved                   34     262177     262144 [Microsoft reserved partition]
 2 P MS Data                   264192  168036351  167772160 [Basic data partition]
 3 P MS Data                168036352  275800063  107763712 [Basic data partition]
 4 P MS Data                275800064  695230463  419430400 [Basic data partition]
 5 P MS Data                695230464 1534091263  838860800 [Basic data partition]
 6 P MS Data               1534091264 1953521663  419430400 [Basic data partition]

[  Type  ]  [Image Creation]  [  Quit  ]
              Change type, this setting will not be saved on disk

and this is when i chose the boot sector recovery option..
Code: 
TestDisk 6.10, Data Recovery Utility, July 2008
Christophe GRENIER <[email protected]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org

Disk /dev/sdb - 33 MB / 31 MiB - CHS 32 32 63
     Partition                  Start        End    Size in sectors
 3 P EFI System             168036352  275800063  107763712 [Basic data partition]

Boot sector
ntfs_boot_sector: Can't read boot sector.
Status: Bad

Backup boot sector
ntfs_boot_sector: Can't read backup boot sector.
Status: Bad

Sectors are identical.

A valid NTFS Boot sector must be present in order to access
any data; even if the partition is not bootable.



[  Quit  ]  [Rebuild BS]  [  Dump  ]
                            Return to Advanced menu
 
The issue seems to be that the bios is detecting the disk as a 33MB disk when it should be 1000GB. wth!!
 
There is a known issue with the 7200.11 drives... usually they are not detected at all or show up as zero size. Since your issue is different it might be a different problem... there are some utilities out there that can adjust a drive's maximum size. (http://hdd-tools.com/products/cr/download/crsetup.exe is a good one) but usually the Seagates with that issue require specialized data recovery hardware to fix, meaning you will need to send it to a data recovery professional or write off the data and RMA the drive.
 
i ended up using seagates seatools, the drive passed the tests so i set it to the max native size. rebooted and all my partitions/data are intact! So after a great sigh of releif, i went out and picked up a WD 1TB drive. I'll use the WD in my desktop, and throw the seagate in my debian box and use it as a backup disk, until (if) it fails again, then i'll exchange it.

on a side note, anyone know of a good backup utility for windows? free, or open source would be nice. also, I'll be backing up ~600GB, most files should never change, probably looking at 2-3 gigs of modified files per day. I was looking at a command line utility called unison, but i don't think it will work as well as other proper backup utils.

Thanks.
 
looks good man, i was thinking ftp would be better suited for this job than going through windows networking/samba.... i will try this out.

now im thinking my best option would be to install an ftp server on my debian box, and schedule a python script with ftplib to perform my backups from windows.
 
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