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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/21/2016 05:04 PM, Jeff Frontz
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Rick
Troth <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:rmt@casita.net" target="_blank">rmt@casita.net</a>></span>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
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I'm looking for disk/data recovery advice. </blockquote>
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What's the failure mode? If the drive is still spinning and
able to (sometimes) do read/writes, you might try something like
SpinWrite.</blockquote>
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SpinWrite ... I'll check that out. <br>
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The symptom is that the disk clicks several times and never shows up
under <font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">/proc/partitions</font>.
I haven't dug into <font face="Courier New, Courier, monospace">/sys/devices</font>
yet. <br>
This is after pulling it from my wife's Toshiba laptop (which can't
boot, obviously) and putting it into an HP Pavilion "server". <br>
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She found it clicking yesterday morning, as if it had been clicking
perpetually for a while. <br>
When she rebooted, it failed, so I took the disk out for analysis. <br>
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It's loose on a shelf, tethered with SATA and power, so I can hold
it and feel the disk spinning. <br>
So it doesn't sound like a stiction problem. <br>
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-- R; <><<br>
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