[SOLVED] Corrupted Hard Drive

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RageOfOrder · Post by **RageOfOrder** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:28 pm

My buddy brought over his 250GB Western Digital IDE hard drive full of music for me to copy. About 60GB in music total.

I plugged it in via external USB, and had conqueror copy a couple folders over to my own hard drive. It copied about 1.5GB and then stopped, and said no device was plugged in.
Ever since then I cannot mount it. In windows, both on USB and through IDE directly, it detects the hard drive, gives me a correct model and serial # on Windows, but can't read the drive.
in Windows, it detects as a Dynamic/Foreign hard drive.

Any ideas on how to fix this without reformatting, or a way to recover the data and then reformat?
The hard drive is formatted as NTFS by the way.

nlindblad · Post by **nlindblad** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:40 pm

One of my older blogposts might come in handy: Rescuing Files From a Corrupted NTFS Partition.

RageOfOrder · Post by **RageOfOrder** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 8:48 pm

nlindblad wrote:One of my older blogposts might come in handy: Rescuing Files From a Corrupted NTFS Partition.

Looks good, I'll give it a shot.
Edit: Plugged it in to start testing, and it detected and mounted fine.

So I started copying files off again and it turns out it's a bad sector.
/var/log/messages

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Oct 25 15:51:34 travis kernel: NTFS volume version 3.1.
Oct 25 15:52:33 travis kernel: usb 1-4: USB disconnect, address 16
Oct 25 15:52:33 travis kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x10000
Oct 25 15:52:33 travis kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 371253015
Oct 25 15:52:33 travis kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x10000
Oct 25 15:52:33 travis kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 371253143
rez usb #

Time for a new one.