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Well, crap
Apr. 25th, 2009 05:59 pmLost a hard drive. Freezer treatment didn't help.
Luckily it's just a scrap space so I didn't lose anything I care much about. Still, I heard it doing a lot of reseeking last night and started a SMART test on it, and hadn't had time to read the logs before we had a power failure this afternoon. It never woke up from that.
I had just reinstalled Windows about 2 months ago and forgot to reinstall smartmontools before yesterday when I started hearing ominous thunks. I probably would have gotten more warning had I given it time to have a history.
I'll play with it a bit but at this point it's probably just a source of magnets. WD says it was sold to a system manufacturer and has no warranty. I have totally lost track of where drives originally came from, so it's a doorstop.
[EDIT] - I put it in a USB enclosure, and after powering it up about 20 times, it caught long enough to be recognized, and I got all the data off of it, although not without it chunking and complaining. Oddly enough, the data on it filled the remainder of the terabyte drive I had on the system with 130 MEGS left over (as close to a perfect fit as is ever likely to happen)
Luckily it's just a scrap space so I didn't lose anything I care much about. Still, I heard it doing a lot of reseeking last night and started a SMART test on it, and hadn't had time to read the logs before we had a power failure this afternoon. It never woke up from that.
I had just reinstalled Windows about 2 months ago and forgot to reinstall smartmontools before yesterday when I started hearing ominous thunks. I probably would have gotten more warning had I given it time to have a history.
I'll play with it a bit but at this point it's probably just a source of magnets. WD says it was sold to a system manufacturer and has no warranty. I have totally lost track of where drives originally came from, so it's a doorstop.
[EDIT] - I put it in a USB enclosure, and after powering it up about 20 times, it caught long enough to be recognized, and I got all the data off of it, although not without it chunking and complaining. Oddly enough, the data on it filled the remainder of the terabyte drive I had on the system with 130 MEGS left over (as close to a perfect fit as is ever likely to happen)
