On Sun 03 Dec 2017 at 20:10:31 (+0100), Bernard wrote:
> All of this raises a number of questions concerning safe storage of
> data. What is available is far from reliable. Another problem is
> that of usb ports : on two of my three computers, usb ports have
> become faulty after 2-3 years ; on my
Hi,
Bernard wrote:
> Surprise : this time, it did AUTOMOUNT the way it used to in the old days !
So there are probably unstable readbility problems with the partition table.
If you have the start address of partition 1 then you could try to
circumvent the partition table by using a loop device a
Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Hi,
arne wrote:
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This is probably the normal superblock in that partition.
But running e2fsck might cause the end of the remaining data in the
filesystem.
I'd try to mount the loop device and hope to recover some files.
When this is queezed out, then may
Hello,
the last bit made me laugh. If the situation is truly dire, you may consider
file carving with 'scalpel' or 'foremost', both of which are in the
repositories.
$ apt-cache show foremost scalpel
Package: foremost
Version: 1.5.7-6
Installed-Size: 123
Maintainer: Raúl Benencia
Depends: libc6
Hi,
arne wrote:
> and I doubt if I understand what is a 'sparse' superblock
It's not a bad sign, as it seems:
http://www.nongnu.org/ext2-doc/ext2.html#SUPERBLOCK
"The first version of ext2 (revision 0) stores a copy at the start of
every block group, along with backups of the group descri
Thanks to All for your advises. Indeed, I most likely have a hardware
problem with this WD external drive. It no longer boots, that is for
sure... But, at most starts it get registered as scsi drive, as reveals
$cat /proc/scsi/scsi
it does most times, not all times. When it does not, I have to
On 26/11/17 22:37, bd wrote:
> This drive no longer mounts
FWIW, my WD external drive stopped mounting. I opened the case (with
difficulty, and possibly breakage, IIRC) removed the drive, and used it
as a normal SATA drive. Still working fine, all the data was there.
This may be completely unrela
On 11/26/17 01:37, bd wrote:
WD P/N : WD1H 1Q
S/N : WCAU4D 164675
is about 4 or 5 years old. It is an external drive using external power
supply. At start, I had formatted it in ext3, so that I 'd be able to
storage videofiles larger than 2 Gb. Since then, I storaged a number of
files in
On 26.11.2017 14:37, bd wrote:
>
> Hi to Everyone,
>
> My
>
> WD P/N : WD1H 1Q
>
> S/N : WCAU4D 164675
>
> is about 4 or 5 years old. It is an external drive using external
> power supply. At start, I had formatted it in ext3, so that I 'd be
> able to storage videofiles larger than 2 Gb. Since
Hi,
bd wrote:
> My other similar drives mount on /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sr0...
Well, sr0 is supposed to be an optical drive: CD, DVD, BD.
sdb1 is the first partition on harddisk-like drive sdb: spinning disk,
SSD disk, USB stick, ...
> If I list my /dev directory using ls -lt, I can see what new de
> How am I to get this drive back to operation, or, at least, to
> recuperate the datafiles that are stored in that WD external drive ?
>
> Thanks in advance to tell me what diagnosis and repair tools I could
> use
>
> Bernard
Hello,
TestDisk checks the partition and boot sectors of your disks
Hi to Everyone,
My
WD P/N : WD1H 1Q
S/N : WCAU4D 164675
is about 4 or 5 years old. It is an external drive using external power
supply. At start, I had formatted it in ext3, so that I 'd be able to
storage videofiles larger than 2 Gb. Since then, I storaged a number of
files in several
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