Barracuda XT Unable to Find Partition, Drive Ident Wrong

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Dizzy49
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Barracuda XT Unable to Find Partition, Drive Ident Wrong

#1 Post by Dizzy49 »

I could have sworn I posted something a few days ago about this, but maybe I was asleep.

I made the mistake of updating Windows 10 a few days ago and when it came back up my 3TB Barracuda XT drive dropped from my drivepool.
I could get it to mount, but it would not initialize. When I ran testdisk I got something like 60k read errors and noticed that the drive is not being identified correctly. The drive model, S/N and size are completely wrong. (See below)

I tried to run seatools as they claim it can fix all kinds of things, but it did absolutely nothing. I'm hoping there is a way I can get it to recognize properly so I can correct the underlying issues and get my data off of it. As it is now, no tools will read it.

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filewin32_setfilepointer(\\.\K:) SetFilePointer err Incorrect function.

Warning: can't get size for \\.\K:
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/sdd - 4142 MB / 3950 MiB - CHS 503 255 63, sector size=512 - ST_M13FQ BL, S/N:36A6EB854321

Partition table type defaults to Intel
Disk /dev/sdd - 4142 MB / 3950 MiB - ST_M13FQ BL
Partition table type: Intel

Interface Advanced

Partition: Read error
file_pwrite(6,1,buffer,0(0/0/1)) write err File truncated
Write error: Can't write new MBR code.

Interface Advanced
file_pread(6,1,buffer,0(0/0/1)) ReadFile Incorrect function.


Analyse Disk /dev/sdd - 4142 MB / 3950 MiB - CHS 503 255 63
Current partition structure:

Partition: Read error

search_part()
Disk /dev/sdd - 4142 MB / 3950 MiB - CHS 503 255 63
file_pread(6,16,buffer,32(0/0/33)) ReadFile Incorrect function.

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Re: Barracuda XT Unable to Find Partition, Drive Ident Wrong

#2 Post by cgrenier »

Looks like a physical or electronic problem. If changing the cable doesn't fix the problem, you should contact a data recovery company.
Good luck

Dizzy49
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Re: Barracuda XT Unable to Find Partition, Drive Ident Wrong

#3 Post by Dizzy49 »

Unfortunately that's the conclusion I have come to as well.

A bunch of videos aren't worth $500+ to recover though

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