Sounds like the service area of the drive is damaged and the drive not starting all the way up in ready mode. The service area saves parameters of the drive, the firmware and service area is loaded on startup, except the service area is in a non addressable part of the drive. Many data recovery companies use equimpemnt like Deepspar (starts at about $10,000) to bypass the startup and start coping sectors. My estimate it is about $800 to $1500 to have a company recover data on a drive like this.
--- On Tue, 4/23/13, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Bug-ddrescue Digest, Vol 87, Issue 9 To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, April 23, 2013, 7:14 PM Send Bug-ddrescue mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Bug-ddrescue digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Error size? (des1) 2. Error size? (des1) 3. Error Size? (des1) 4. Error Size? (des1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:38:52 -0700 (PDT) From: des1 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] Error size? Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have a WD 2tb hdd which recently failed, it makes a clicking noise but still spins. It is found in the bios, device manager and in linux but I cant mount the disk and it gives 49 currently unreadable sectors. I tried dd rescue onto my 3tb ntfs hdd with the following command ddrescue -f -d -r3 /dev/xxx /dev/yyy /path/to/logfile it starts up but nothing transfers it gets 1 error and this error goes up to a size of 2tb?? then tries Trimming but this also this is to no avail. Is this hdd declared dead? Should i now try the freezer trick? Any help would be appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Error-size--tp35328181p35328181.html Sent from the Gnu - ddrescue mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:40:23 -0700 (PDT) From: des1 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] Error size? Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have a WD 2tb hdd which recently failed, it makes a clicking noise but still spins. It is found in the bios, device manager and in linux but I cant mount the disk and it gives 49 currently unreadable sectors. I tried dd rescue onto my 3tb ntfs hdd with the following command ddrescue -f -d -r3 /dev/xxx /dev/yyy /path/to/logfile it starts up but nothing transfers it gets 1 error and this error goes up to a size of 2tb?? then tries Trimming but this also this is to no avail. Is this hdd declared dead? Should i now try the freezer trick? Any help would be appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Error-size--tp35328186p35328186.html Sent from the Gnu - ddrescue mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:42:56 -0700 (PDT) From: des1 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] Error Size? Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have a WD 2tb hdd which recently failed, it makes a clicking noise but still spins. It is found in the bios, device manager and in linux but I cant mount the disk and it gives 49 currently unreadable sectors. I tried dd rescue onto my 3tb ntfs hdd with the following command ddrescue -f -d -r3 /dev/xxx /dev/yyy /path/to/logfile it starts up but nothing transfers it gets 1 error and this error goes up to a size of 2tb?? then tries Trimming but this also is to no avail. Is this hdd declared dead? Should i now try the freezer trick? Any help would be appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Error-Size--tp35328193p35328193.html Sent from the Gnu - ddrescue mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:45:33 -0700 (PDT) From: des1 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [Bug-ddrescue] Error Size? Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I have a WD 2tb hdd which recently failed, it makes a clicking noise but still spins. It is found in the bios, device manager and in linux but I cant mount the disk and it gives 49 currently unreadable sectors. I tried dd rescue onto my 3tb ntfs hdd with the following command ddrescue -f -d -r3 /dev/xxx /dev/yyy /path/to/logfile it starts up but nothing transfers it gets 1 error and this error goes up to a size of 2tb?? then tries Trimming but this also is to no avail. Is this hdd declared dead? Should i now try the freezer trick? Any help would be appreciated. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Error-Size--tp35328201p35328201.html Sent from the Gnu - ddrescue mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bug-ddrescue mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ddrescue End of Bug-ddrescue Digest, Vol 87, Issue 9 *******************************************
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