On Tuesday, November 01, 2011 02:47:27 PM Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Dale<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> For the first time in my life, I think I have a drive failing on me. > >> Here> > >> is the info: > > <SNIP> > > > >> What you folks think? Can I fix it somehow? I got a good shovel > >> handy just in case. > >> > >> Dale > > > > Start doing backups before you write even 1 more email! ;;-) > > > > - Mark > > Well, it was in my brothers winders rig. Winders couldn't do anything > but puke on the keyboard so I brought it down here and put it in my old > Linux rig. I mounted it ro and got the data off it FIRST THING.
Good idea... MS Windows has a tendency not to be able to handle failing disks... > There > was a boatload of pictures from their camera. Anyway, the data seems to > be safe tho a few may have gotten messed up. I got to test that in a bit. If there were no read errors, any damaged files were caused by ms windows, not the disk. > Is this terminal or can something be done to correct this? I did run > the dd command before I ran the selftest. I don't think it matters but > thought it wouldn't hurt either. If it is terminal, I'll get my > screwdriver out and see what these drives look like on the inside. The > last one I looked into was a old 14" thing many years ago. Platters > were about the size of 33 rpm records. lol Dang I'm old. O_O If SMART is saying it will die in 24 hours it will make a nice doorstop :) I wouldn't use it for data (even throw away stuff) anymore. -- Joost
