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drive failing, dd back failed at 33%, can I partially recover?
An external hard drive had trouble mounting after bootup. So I began to clone it using dd.This was quite a while ago, and so I don't recall the exact parameters. Something rather standard for a ...
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usb stick's broken after badblock with -w option
I have two usb sticks with 8Gb and 128Gb size. For different reasons, I pass badblocks with -svw option, and now both sticks are totally damaged. Every time I want to write on it I have the same error:...
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Data rescue - general advice & ddrescue output
I have a broken 4TB NTFS Seagate HDD with thousands of tiff images with measurement data:
Ubuntu Disk tells me, "Disk is OK, one bad sector", Contents: "Unknown".
The BIOS doesn't ...
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Seagate Backup Plus portable USB HDD beeps and won't mount
About two years ago, I bought me a Seagate "Backup Plus" Portable HDD, 2 TB capacity. Model: SRD00F1. And indeed, I filled it with some content. It's not critical material, but - it's the only copy I ...
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NTFS seagate ST31000528AS drive can be accessed from various linux distributions but not from Windows
This a windows 7 NTFS system drive that stopped booting windows.When seen from a windows repair boot DVD it appears as RAW.Seagate diagnostics (Seatools) Fails at 10% of simple diagnostics.BUT various ...
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HDD issue: Buffer I/O error on dev
One of my drives that's encrypted (LUKS + cryptsetup) ext4 seems to give strange errors when looking at dmesg / syslog:
https://pastebin.com/RZdJK2qg
And I can't ls into it (but I can cd into it)
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Fedora just warned me hard drive might fail soon
So I bought a "Asus X540LA Laptop, Intel Core i7-5500U 2.4GHz, 8GB RAM, 1TB HDD" in June this year. And today I got a warning that the HDD would fail in <24 hours. I ran smartctl to diagnose the ...
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Troubleshooting failing disk hardware (no medium present) on Linux?
Ok, I was working on my Asus TX300CA, which has a tablet part with CPU and one hard drive in it (/dev/sda), and a keyboard dock with another hard drive (/dev/sdb). The partitions on the drives from ...
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Failing hard drive or bad controller after hard shutdown
After nouveau freezing everything with dual monitor for the millionth time I had to cut power on my macbook pro (mid 2010, fedora 24, SAMSUNG HN-M500MBB hard drive). Wasn't doing anything IO heavy ...
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HDD IO errors, is this definitely a HDD failure or could it be something else? kernel.log
This HDD's history
The hard drive is 1.5TB, 6 years old. IIRC it's 7200RPM with a ATA133 interface, using the motherboard's onboard controller. It gave perfect service in a big desktop PC, then 1 ...
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Using an external drive from Seagate with an HDD from Samsung
I have been running my external drive Seagate STBV20002004.5 for 2.5 years until it started showing read errors. I disassembled it and replaced the HDD with a Samsung HD501LJ (which, I am sure, is ...
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Is I/O error sufficient reason to return SSD on warranty?
Several times I’ve encountered heavy disk errors leading to complete system crash, after reboot m/b doesn’t detect SSD till full PC poweroff.
Here is log I've managed to display before OS gone ...
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How do I find which disk (volume) is failing?
I am using stock Apache Hadoop 1.1.1 and I can't get a datanode to start due to:
2015-04-23 09:12:48,138 INFO org.apache.hadoop.metrics2.impl.MetricsConfig: loaded properties from hadoop-metrics2....
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Does the following mean my SSD is about to fail?
[iceguru@stuxnet ~]$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [x86_64-linux-3.14.21-1-MANJARO] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
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