"Blank" or "Empty" Media files after HDD data recovery

[maximus]

You provided an actual picture of the 4TB source drive. But you only provided pictures of the box for the 5TB destination drive. The box means nothing. Only pictures of the actual drive are useful, or at least the enclosure.

And you need to provide the information that was asked for in the previous post. Output from fdisk -lu, and SMART status of the 5TB drive, in the same format you provided it for the 4TB drive in the beginning of this thread.

We will await more useful information from you.


Damn, this is just too good, very well thought out. Someone stamp SUCKER on my forehead. There is no way this is real...

[jermy]

Only pictures of the actual drive are useful

Not so fast
Below is attached a picture of an HDD sold by the ....... Chinese on aliexpress claims to be a 2TB Samsung HDD
(Came to me because the owner claimed that's showing raw 1.8TiB, trying to repartition the drive it shows only 55GiB.)
Opening the enclosure I couldn't stop laughing, they actually even bothered to print a nice label (2)

To check what HDD it really is...

Its an old PATA Fujitsu 60GB

[Glauco]

Hello, I'm sorry. At first, I did not know there could be a difference between the description of the box and the real drive. Second, I did not know it was possible to open this case. Third did not know how to open this case. I learned all this. Thank you very much.

And to my surprise, apparently, the drive has 1.5GB, is this it?

SMART Report:

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(2) ST31500341AS
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Enclosure : ST315003 41AS USB Device (V=152D, P=2338, jm1) - st
Model : ST31500341AS
Firmware : CC1H
Serial Number : 9VS4A3V3
Disk Size : 1500,3 GB (8,4/137,4/1500,3/1500,3)
Buffer Size : Unknown
Queue Depth : 32
# of Sectors : 2930277168
Rotation Rate : 7200 RPM
Interface : USB (Serial ATA)
Major Version : ATA8-ACS
Minor Version : ATA8-ACS version 4
Transfer Mode : ---- | SATA/300
Power On Hours : 14586 hours
Power On Count : 6395 times
Temperature : 38 C (100 F)
Health Status : Alert
Features : S.M.A.R.T., AAM, 48bit LBA, NCQ
APM Level : ----
AAM Level : FE00h [ON]
Drive Letter : F: J: K: L: M: N: O:
-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 117 _83 __6 0000088B4C52 Read Error Rate
03 100 _92 __0 000000000000 Spin-Up Time
04 _87 _87 _20 0000000036E3 Start/Stop Count
05 _99 _99 _36 000000000037 Reallocated Sectors Count
07 _78 _60 _30 000003AC0F08 Seek Error Rate
09 _84 _84 __0 0000000038FA Power-On Hours
0A 100 100 _97 00000000000D Spin Retry Count
0C _94 _37 _20 0000000018FB Device Power Cycle Count
B8 100 100 _99 000000000000 End-to-End Error
BB __1 __1 __0 000000000A13 Reported Uncorrectable Errors
BC 100 _75 __0 007800780078 Command Timeout
BD _19 _19 __0 000000000051 High Fly Writes
BE _62 _41 _45 057C26260026 Airflow Temperature
C2 _38 _59 __0 001100000026 Temperature
C3 _39 _29 __0 0000088B4C52 Hardware ECC recovered
C5 100 100 __0 000000000000 Current Pending Sector Count
C6 100 100 __0 000000000000 Uncorrectable Sector Count
C7 200 111 __0 00000000C1B3 UltraDMA CRC Error Count
F0 100 253 __0 D51200003678 Head Flying Hours
F1 100 253 __0 000089A9B890 Total Host Writes
F2 100 253 __0 0000ECC0D93B Total Host Reads

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[rogfanther]

Well, seems you have a 1.5TB hard disk. If that one came from the 5TB enclosure, take it to the seller and complain to him.

As for your cloning, get a real SATA 4TB or 5TB disk ( if possibly, not Seagate ) then you can continue.

Oh, please, post a picture of the label of the 5TB->1.5TB drive.

[rogfanther]

Also, please provide the full output of fdisk -l, with both hard disks connected to the machine.

[Glauco]

OK, i forgot!

Later I´ĺl provide the full fdisk information.

These days i'm very, very busy. But i´l do it.

Thank you so much for the patience...

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[rogfanther]

Well, if that is the disk that was inside the 5TB box, you were duped. Have you paid around R$ 700 - R$ 900 for that disk ? or have you paid much less ?

If the thing was cheap, it is a fake. If you got it as a gift, maybe some friend fixed a broken one with some hdd they had and gave it to you.

Either way, for cloning that 4TB disk , you need a 4TB one ( or bigger ) . Until you get one of those, nothing can be done.

If you need the data in the 4TB disk , better take it to a data recovery firm than risk working with the original disk withou a copy..

[Glauco]

OK. The HDD was a used gift.

I will get a 5 tb hd and I will post the results as soon as I can.

For now, thank you all.