XPost: aus.computers   
   From: none@not.here   
      
   Computer Nerd Kev wrote:   
   > In aus.computers Paul  wrote:   
   >> On Tue, 11/25/2025 12:54 AM, Felix wrote:   
   >>> This is doing my head in. Here's the relative test results.   
   >>> I have no idea what to make of them (but you do)   
   >>>   
   >>> https://auslink.info/HD/   
   >> The results don't seem credible.   
   >> They're weird looking.   
   > They look fine to me for a healthy drive.   
   >   
   >> I don't see a power-on hours field, or maybe   
   >> I do, and it is lifetime *2 hours* ? Bullshit.   
   > The power-on hours field on some drives wraps around to zero after   
   > so many hours, so that's not always abnormal.   
   >   
   >> You have a count of "1" in Current Pending Sector count.   
   >> Which is suspicious, and those start to show up   
   >> near end of life. These seem to happen when the   
   >> spares are getting low, and the drive is about   
   >> to start reporting CRC errors because there are   
   >> no spares to fix that.   
   > You can see how many reallocated sectors it reports already having   
   > and that's zero! No problem.   
   >   
   > [snip]   
   >> It is your call, on whether this is merely a novelty   
   >> observation experiment, or, you are serious about   
   >> getting the data off. If I was coming to your house   
   >> right now to help, I would be bringing two hard   
   >> drives, a known-working 1TB and a known-working larger   
   >> one (in case file-at-a-time recovery is attempted).   
   >> But the project isn't going to get very far, if the   
   >> thing is a mass of errors. Just the time it would take   
   >> to reach the other end of the drive, may exceed the number   
   >> of hours left before it dies.   
   > Well he hasn't shown more than typical file system corruption that   
   > can result from a sudden power-off or software crash. But then he   
   > hasn't expressed whether he's interested in the data or wants to   
   > re-use the drive.   
      
   both. if I can access it I'll get the data of, and if the disk is ok   
   I'll keep it for non critical use   
      
   >   In the former case, he should stop messing around   
   > looking at SMART data   
      
   I've been doing what others suggested   
      
   > and make a disk image.   
      
   how can I make an image of a disk that can't be read?   
      
   >   In the latter case run   
   > a self-test as I suggested   
      
   doing that now   
      
   > before and if that passes then reformat   
   > and get on with using it because the SMART data looks as good as   
   > you'd expect from any used drive.   
   >   
      
   that's encouraging then, thanks   
      
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