Honestly I don’t have a spare cable at home. I need to organize one and then test it, which is probably taking some time.
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comador@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Take it out of the Sabrent USB and directly connect it to the system, run lsblk to get the drive id and then check smartmontools using smartctl -H /dev/(whatever disk it is)
This will tell you if the drive is hosed or not.
If it is hosed, can always dead drop it from one banana worth of height on a table to see if the drive heads unlock, then try again.
mobergmann@lemmy.world 1 day ago
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If it is hosed, can always dead drop it from one banana worth of height on a table to see if the drive heads unlock, then try again.
Or try the freezer trick. It has been many years, but it has worked for me.
RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
what is the freezer trick exactly?
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Pop the disk into the freezer for a few hours (or a day). It has to be long enough for the components to all get cold. This shrinks the materials and could possibly unstick heads from the platters. I think it has worked two out of four attempts for me. This is a method to get access to the data of which you should extract as soon as possible.
Be cautious of condensation on the cold disk as it could potentially arc circuitry.
comador@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It was a method to unstick stuck drive platters, but hasn’t worked since HDD manufacturing processes changed a few years ago. May work for certain drives manufacted pre-Covid, but that’s it:
0x0@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Nothing in that link explains why i wouldnt work anymore
comador@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Been so long I had forgotten the freezer trick lol. Good memories haha.
jestho@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I love that “have you tried hitting it?” is still a thing with hardware. Reminds me of my old Xbox360 that I saved from the red ring of death by packing it in a blanket so that it overheated, which worked somehow
comador@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m literally a subject matter expert (SME) on Enterprise Storage Arrays and can absolutely attest to ‘hitting it’ being an actual tier 3 support suggestion for spindle drives. It’s still a thing and will continue to be one so long as spindle drives continue to exist.