XPost: aus.computers   
   From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   In aus.computers Felix  wrote:   
   > Computer Nerd Kev wrote:   
   >> In aus.computers Felix  wrote:   
   >>> Computer Nerd Kev wrote:   
   >>>> 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   
   >> Best focus on getting the data off first then because if the drive   
   >> is dying it might suddenly stop working entirely after being left   
   >> on much longer.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I don't have another drive to copy to atm   
      
   Well if you value the data then leave it alone until you do.   
      
   >> backup image that you can restore if it goes wrong. You can also   
   >> compress the backup to avoid needing a full 1TB of space if you're   
   >> going to run the recovery software on the drive:   
   >>   
   >>    sudo dd if=/dev/sde bs=4096 noerror status=progress | gzip -c >   
   ~/broken_disk.img.gz   
   >>   
   >   
   > I'm not comfortable using the terminal. I'll try the freezing method   
   > when I have access to another drive to copy to   
      
   That's silly when there's nothing to tell you that the drive is at   
   fault and it could just be that the OS stuffed it up. Freezing might   
   stuff up a perfectly good drive.   
      
   Anyway why ask about getting data off before you had a place to put   
   it? If you _don't_ really care about the data and are willing to   
   risk losing it, run the drive's self-test (no "mounting" involved)   
   and if it passes then leave it connected to a Windows PC while it   
   boots up so it should automatically CHKDSK it during start-up.   
   Though I've had Windows CHKDSK delete lots of stuff from a drive   
   before so I'd still recommend making a backup image of it first if   
   the data is more than curiosity value. If Windows won't run CHKDSK   
   then you could try using fixntfs on Linux first to mark it "dirty",   
   but since that's a command-line tool I guess you won't want to.   
      
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