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I will look into a docking station. I don't have a second laptop to install the drive in. It's actually an old Windows laptop drive that I put in an enclosure.

Using smartctl, I get the same result:

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Smartctl open device: /dev/disk2s1 failed: Operation not supported by device ...

I will take a look at that when I get home tonight. I'm not super confident in my abilities to investigate this, but I will give it a shot.

I assumed maybe the SMART status was listed as not supported because the drive was bad.

Apologies for the delayed response ...

It's a Western Digital Scorpio WD1600BEVE. 160 GB.

It's been a couple of years since I ran PhotoRec on the drive. I will try it again and see what happens. I've also used a few other programs to salvage items, but as I recall, each time a majority of files were unreadable. If I open the files in a text editor, there's data there, and as I said, the ...

Hi all:

First, I'm generally a novice when it comes to computing beyond the basic, everyday use of Mac and Windows systems. Second, I don't have a lot of hope for recovering lost data ... but here goes my story anyway ...

I have an old laptop HD that I put in an enclosure a number of years ago and ...