sgtor wrote: ⤴Tue May 21, 2019 4:14 pm
I too think the drive is dead but somehow I really wanted it to work out well for him so I'm pretty much grasping at straws.
Your post gives me an idea though for another command that I didn't think of before. Helmar try one last command before giving up on it.
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sudo apt install testdisk && sudo testdisk /list /dev/sdb
Hey guys. Thanks, Sgtor for not giving up. Something else came up at this point. Tell me. I know that
sda usually is the local drive and
sdb are the removable drives, right? When I look at the dmesg output it always says sg3. Then, when I tried your testdisk suggestion I started trying it with all the possibilities I could
testdisk /dev/sd* it only shows the sda partitions
testdisk /dev/ anything I could LOL
Then I changed the drive to a USB2 port (don't ask me why. I'm giving blind shots LOL)
Dmesg showed me sg2 device. I might be crazy or
sg* are not related to this?
As a last attempt, I plugged the device back to the USB3 port and tried smartctl and testdisk using sg2 and at this right moment both commands are running (I don't know if I should run both at the same time). Something different showed up in the smartctl command but it is stuck in this "running" mode and nothing happens.
Anyway, it is a good result? Here are the current status:
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sudo testdisk -list /dev/sg2
[sudo] password for helmar:
TestDisk 7.0, Data Recovery Utility, April 2015
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Nothing new but how about this one?
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helmar@helmar-Lenovo-G40-70 ~ $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sg2
smartctl 6.5 2016-01-24 r4214 [x86_64-linux-4.4.0-148-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: WD
Product: My Passport 07A8
Revision: 1042
Compliance: SPC-4
Serial number: WX51A83C5482
Device type: disk
Local Time is: Wed May 22 07:40:53 2019 -03
SMART support is: Unavailable - device lacks SMART capability.
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
It says "no SMART support". What does that mean? Good news?
The cursor is blinking just like a running command and nothing else happened while I was writing this post.
Unfortunately, I have to switch back to Windows (I use Windows at work
) but I hope this message brings a light over this problem.
Thanks!
Editing: before booting my laptop I saw this on the smartctl command:
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device becoming ready (wait)
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.