i8igmac Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 I have a labtop with two 500gig hard drives... my labtop took a hard hit when the linux OS was running. /dev/sdb1 =>100 gig linux mint /dev/sdb5 =>200 gig home folder After this hard impact. I started up a live usb, and ran a fsck -y /dev/sdb5 and sdb1 also updated grub. I then booted the linux os successfully! Leaving the machine On all night was a mistake! I would imagine the system sitting at idle was making hard drive writes. The system become unresponsive. My opportunity to perform data recovery may have been lost. At this point I have 3 working live usb sticks. Gparted live, kali linux and linux mint... mint and kali wont boot completely, they are stuck in a loop of what looks like 'hard drive sense key media error with hex of bad sector found'(I have a screenshot) I see the same errors with gparted live but it will completely boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i8igmac Posted December 23, 2015 Author Share Posted December 23, 2015 At this point the drive is unresponsive... time to open this thing up and have a look inside... Dual solid state raid configuration will be put into this labtop :-) I now know what to put in my amazon shopping cart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 You're going to open up the harddrive(s) or the laptop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i8igmac Posted December 23, 2015 Author Share Posted December 23, 2015 I have watched a few videos online about opening up the hard, with hopes that its a simple fix... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 What do you expect to find in there that you can fix? I'd be amazed if you can even see anything amiss in there. In my opinion once you open up a harddisk the best you can hope for is a lifetime measured in hours. I wouldn't do that with a disk whose data I still hope to recover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i8igmac Posted December 24, 2015 Author Share Posted December 24, 2015 I can agree with you... every command I throw it this drive is a fail. I don't see the partition table anymore, I tried testdrive recovery tool and its a fail to read /dev/sdb I know the partition sdb5 is my home folder. Any advice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 You could try ddrescue to image the disk. It will skip bad sectors, etc. You can tell it to skip right to the byte offset of /dev/sdb5 if you know the offset or can get a read on the MBR or GPT to get the locations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karit Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 I can agree with you... every command I throw it this drive is a fail. I don't see the partition table anymore, I tried testdrive recovery tool and its a fail to read /dev/sdb I know the partition sdb5 is my home folder. Any advice? Restore from backup? I know this is a little late but my first step would have been to plug the disk in as an external drive to a working computer and copied off the files I required. When disks start throwing errors like that it is a matter time before they die completely so should plan out what you want to do before powering them back up. If the partition tables were still good I would target the files I wanted as the drive might just die during an image as the I/O of an image is quite high and could kill it even faster without getting the required files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
i8igmac Posted December 24, 2015 Author Share Posted December 24, 2015 (edited) Test disk ran all night and found some unlabeled partitions. there is hope Edited December 24, 2015 by i8igmac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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