Re: External harddisk

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Since you have taken the disk apart it will now be useless as within the enclosure there could have been a vacuum or an inert gas.

You will never be able to recover any data on the disk unless you go and pay for a professional data recovery organisation to read the platters.

The price for a replacement 340GByte USB disk is about $25 which would give you a better product than your old disk.

Mark

-----Original Message----- From: H
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 4:47 PM
To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  External harddisk

On 09/30/2020 05:40 AM, John Pierce wrote:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 8:33 AM H <agents@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have an old external harddisk, Toshiba 320 Gb, with a USB connector that
I wanted to check for contents. It did not start up when connected and I
could not hear the motor spinning. After leaving it in the freezer
overnight the motor spins but it is not recognized by my computer. I
disassembled it and could see that the head assembly rests outside the disk but when it is powered on, the head first moves to the center of the disk,
then to the periphery and finally back to the resting position. This
happens every few seconds and leaving it connected overnight changed
nothing.

That repeated seeking suggests it's not passing its self test, and is
constantly retrying. It's probably searching for servo data on the disks,
and not finding it.

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I see. I have not searched for any low-level disk utility from Toshiba, the manufacturer of the disk. Do you think that might be worthwhile to hopefully fix this?

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