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 Post subject: Looking for some directions on a Seagate 7200.12
PostPosted: June 29th, 2021, 7:37 
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So last week, for the first time in my 20+ year programming career, I had faulty drive and I have been reading up on the domain of data recovery since and have reached a point were I could use some pointers on what to explore/rtfm next.

Situation:
-Seagate 1TB barracuda 7200.12
-Drive suddenly disappeared from os and bios.
-Confirmed it was the drive and not the board/sata-cables/power-supply
-Drive spins up fine.
-Drive was making a faint click of death when powered on.
-Hooked up the drive to a sata->usb3 adaptor and external power supply.
-plugged it in an usb3 port. No changes.

And now for the part that has me really confused:
If I plug it in a usb2.0 port, 4/5 times it starts up like you expect a healthy drive would. Makes (seemingly) normal HDD sounds, no click of death, even shows up in the os, mounts the drive at it’s original drive letter, without its original name, is Online, though inaccessible and RAW formatted, but it does show up.

So my two most pertinent question at this moment are:
1: really curious on an intellectual level: how the hell could this usb3 vs usb2 be happening?
2: anything I could try next to recover the RAW data? Because all the tools I have used in the past to recover RAW formatted disks, basically get stuck/idle while trying to scan/find/etc the disk.

The data is of medium importance to me, important enough to allow myself to explore an apparently much more interesting area of computerscience/hardware than I was previously aware of, though not important enough to pay the prices the excellent datarecovery center around the corner charges, not because they are necessarily unreasonable, but because I can’t really afford them after the last 1,5 year of insanity.


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 Post subject: Re: Looking for some directions on a Seagate 7200.12
PostPosted: June 29th, 2021, 14:47 
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When you attach the drive to usb 2.0, check SMART status of your drive with CrystalDiskInfo.
Very likely the issue is "damaged surface". If i'm not wrong, smart attributes will show reallocated or pending sectors.

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 Post subject: Re: Looking for some directions on a Seagate 7200.12
PostPosted: June 29th, 2021, 15:59 
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See this thread:

https://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=38411

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