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by davidt
27 Jul 2018, 02:23
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Strange bad hard drive behavior question
Replies: 2
Views: 1287

Re: Strange bad hard drive behavior question

Yeah, I took the bad drive out of the USB enclosure and did all the tests and dumps as an internal SATA drive. The destination USB 3.0 drives were both new. I have done plenty of backup and src/dst verification on the first USB destination drive since then and it looks to be in perfect working ...
by davidt
25 Jul 2018, 18:41
Forum: Partition Recovery
Topic: Strange bad hard drive behavior question
Replies: 2
Views: 1287

Strange bad hard drive behavior question

Here is a weird hard drive problem I have, I am not asking for help on recovery...

My 6+ yrs old 3TB external USB Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001 had gone bad. I used it infrequently and unplugged the power and USB afterwards. The drive was always flaky with the initial connections and had occasional ...