Strange external problem
Posted: 09 Sep 2016, 02:49
Background
Took my ntfs WD My Passport to a friend's place, it wouldn't be recognized even though it was recognized less than an hour ago on my computer. Friend plugged/unplugged w/o ejecting while it was looking for drivers or something. We were not writing/copying data at the time. I run W10/ubuntu my friend runs W7.
Details
W10
The disk shows up on device and disk manager but disk manager now reads the file as unallocated. It even reads the disk as "My Passport" so there is definitely still some kind of data left on there.
Ubuntu
Running under live disk, the disk will only show up under "Disks." It also reads the disk as unallocated. I tried to copy disk as image but it was replacing bad sectors with zeroes and I wasn't sure if it was writing the bad sectors to the disk or to my new external to offload data on.
TestDisk
I've been running it for about 16hrs and it's on sector 264/121596, all with read error. I'm not sure this is the right way to go about it. At this rate it'd take over a 100 days to do a full check. Testdisk can see that it has 931/1000GB in use on the drive so there's something on there it knows so I'm hopeful. What can I do from this situation? Should I just use Photorec to recover files and forget saving the whole disk?
Took my ntfs WD My Passport to a friend's place, it wouldn't be recognized even though it was recognized less than an hour ago on my computer. Friend plugged/unplugged w/o ejecting while it was looking for drivers or something. We were not writing/copying data at the time. I run W10/ubuntu my friend runs W7.
Details
W10
The disk shows up on device and disk manager but disk manager now reads the file as unallocated. It even reads the disk as "My Passport" so there is definitely still some kind of data left on there.
Ubuntu
Running under live disk, the disk will only show up under "Disks." It also reads the disk as unallocated. I tried to copy disk as image but it was replacing bad sectors with zeroes and I wasn't sure if it was writing the bad sectors to the disk or to my new external to offload data on.
TestDisk
I've been running it for about 16hrs and it's on sector 264/121596, all with read error. I'm not sure this is the right way to go about it. At this rate it'd take over a 100 days to do a full check. Testdisk can see that it has 931/1000GB in use on the drive so there's something on there it knows so I'm hopeful. What can I do from this situation? Should I just use Photorec to recover files and forget saving the whole disk?