read error at cyl/254/63

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PieterD
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Joined: 23 Dec 2013, 15:26

read error at cyl/254/63

#1 Post by PieterD »

On every cylinder i get an read arror for exemple:
read error at 7/254/63.

What could that be/how to repair?

PieterD

BadHDsMakeMeSad
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Joined: 08 Jan 2014, 21:31

Re: read error at cyl/254/63

#2 Post by BadHDsMakeMeSad »

I'm getting this same problem with a 1TB USB Hard Drive... No partitions show up as well... It's been running about a day and a half now, and I'm only about 33% done with the scan.

BadHDsMakeMeSad
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Re: read error at cyl/254/63

#3 Post by BadHDsMakeMeSad »

I am having the same problem... So far I've been doing the analysis scan for two days now and I'm only at 55% with a 1TB USB hard drive.

BadHDsMakeMeSad
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Re: read error at cyl/254/63

#4 Post by BadHDsMakeMeSad »

Well after 4 days of scanning TestDisk did not find any partition information... I'm not wasting my time with a Deeper Scan. It seems this consistent read error I receive throughout the whole scanning process does not return any valuable information from the drive. Oh well....

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