I apologize if this is the wrong forum or category, but I don’t totally understand the nature of the problem.
Background:
I have a WD My Passport 1TB external hdd (one partition, NTFS, non encrypted) which is mostly used to storage multimedia. Like a month ago it started to get tricky to be properly recognized, problem that always was solved by simply unplug and plug (presuming this was caused by the aged front panel connector). One night when I plugged in, it started to clicking for a couple of seconds and i immediately disconnected when stops. I get a second hdd to extract the data, avoid the front panel and plugged in the back, no issues, start copying some directories but not all. Umount and safely remove all devices before shutdown the system and go to bed whit the idea of finishing the job the next morning. To my surprise when I connect the drive, is suddenly “empty” only two directories listed “$RECYCLE.BIN” and “System Volume Information”.
smartctl output:
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smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.6.2-101.fc38.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Elements / My Passport (USB, AF)
Device Model: WDC WD10JMVW-11AJGS4
Serial Number: WD-WXS1A171D0YN
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 65cb6fc8c
Firmware Version: 01.01A01
User Capacity: 1,000,171,332,096 bytes [1.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Device is: In smartctl database 7.3/5528
ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 3.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Mon Dec 4 00:42:25 2023 -03
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (18720) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 209) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x7035) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 129 117 021 Pre-fail Always - 4541
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1067
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 575
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 929
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 35
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 196 196 000 Old_age Always - 12221
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 120 104 000 Old_age Always - 27
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
The above only provides legacy SMART information - try 'smartctl -x' for more
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Sun Nov 19 07:14:31 2023
Command line: TestDisk
TestDisk 7.1, Data Recovery Utility, July 2019
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
OS: Linux, kernel 6.5.10-200.fc38.x86_64 (#1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Nov 2 19:59:55 UTC 2023) x86_64
Compiler: GCC 13.0
ext2fs lib: 1.46.5, ntfs lib: libntfs-3g, reiserfs lib: none, ewf lib: 20140608, curses lib: ncurses 6.4
/dev/sda: LBA, LBA48 support
/dev/sda: size 468862128 sectors
/dev/sda: user_max 468862128 sectors
/dev/sdb: LBA, LBA48, DCO support
/dev/sdb: size 488397168 sectors
/dev/sdb: user_max 488397168 sectors
/dev/sdb: dco 488397168 sectors
Warning: can't get size for Disk /dev/mapper/control - 0 B - 0 sectors, sector size=512
Hard disk list
Disk /dev/sda - 240 GB / 223 GiB - CHS 29185 255 63, sector size=512 - Patriot Burst Elite 240GB, S/N:PBELIBA22041210650, FW:HCS1A25C
Disk /dev/sdb - 250 GB / 232 GiB - CHS 30401 255 63, sector size=512 - TOSHIBA MK2565GSX, S/N:41UHP07GT, FW:GJ002C
Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121597 255 63, sector size=512 - WD My Passport 25E1, FW:1015
Partition table type (auto): EFI GPT
Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - WD My Passport 25E1
Partition table type: EFI GPT
Analyse Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121597 255 63
hdr_size=92
hdr_lba_self=1
hdr_lba_alt=1953458175 (expected 1953458175)
hdr_lba_start=34
hdr_lba_end=1953458142
hdr_lba_table=2
hdr_entries=128
hdr_entsz=128
Current partition structure:
1 P MS Data 2048 1953456127 1953454080
search_part()
Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121597 255 63
NTFS at 0/32/33
filesystem size 1953454080
sectors_per_cluster 8
mft_lcn 786432
mftmirr_lcn 2
clusters_per_mft_record -10
clusters_per_index_record 1
NTFS part_offset=1048576, part_size=1000168488960, sector_size=512
NTFS partition cannot be added (part_offset<part_size).
NTFS at 0/32/33
filesystem size 1953454080
sectors_per_cluster 8
mft_lcn 786432
mftmirr_lcn 2
clusters_per_mft_record -10
clusters_per_index_record 1
MS Data 2048 1953456127 1953454080
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
Results
P MS Data 2048 1953456127 1953454080
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
Hint for advanced users: dmsetup may be used if you prefer to avoid rewriting the partition table for the moment:
echo "0 1953454080 linear /dev/sdc 2048" | dmsetup create test0
ntfs_device_testdisk_io_ioctl() unimplemented
dir_partition inode=5
P MS Data 2048 1953456127 1953454080
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
Directory /
5 dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 31-Oct-2023 18:06 .
5 dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 31-Oct-2023 18:06 ..
37 dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 31-Oct-2023 18:06 $RECYCLE.BIN
35 dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 31-Oct-2023 18:06 System Volume Information
interface_write()
1 P MS Data 2048 1953456127 1953454080
search_part()
Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121597 255 63
NTFS at 0/32/33
filesystem size 1953454080
sectors_per_cluster 8
mft_lcn 786432
mftmirr_lcn 2
clusters_per_mft_record -10
clusters_per_index_record 1
NTFS part_offset=1048576, part_size=1000168488960, sector_size=512
NTFS partition cannot be added (part_offset<part_size).
NTFS at 0/32/33
filesystem size 1953454080
sectors_per_cluster 8
mft_lcn 786432
mftmirr_lcn 2
clusters_per_mft_record -10
clusters_per_index_record 1
MS Data 2048 1953456127 1953454080
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
block_group_nr 625
recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 20480000 -B 4096 device" may be needed
recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=625/7451, s_mnt_count=0/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=8192
recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096
recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 244182011
recover_EXT2: part_size 1953456088
Filesystem created: Wed Oct 18 01:36:19 2017
Linux filesys. data 2046 1953458133 1953456088
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Backup_SB, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
block_group_nr 625
recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 20480000 -B 4096 device" may be needed
recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=625/7451, s_mnt_count=0/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=8192
recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096
recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 244182011
recover_EXT2: part_size 1953456088
Filesystem created: Wed Oct 18 01:36:19 2017
Linux filesys. data 2048 1953458135 1953456088
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Backup_SB, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
block_group_nr 729
recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 23887872 -B 4096 device" may be needed
recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=729/7451, s_mnt_count=0/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=8192
recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096
recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 244182011
recover_EXT2: part_size 1953456088
Filesystem created: Wed Oct 18 01:36:19 2017
Linux filesys. data 2046 1953458133 1953456088
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Backup_SB, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
block_group_nr 729
recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 23887872 -B 4096 device" may be needed
recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=729/7451, s_mnt_count=0/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=8192
recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096
recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 244182011
recover_EXT2: part_size 1953456088
Filesystem created: Wed Oct 18 01:36:19 2017
Linux filesys. data 2048 1953458135 1953456088
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Backup_SB, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
0 0000 0000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Unknown 528866159 35039205642328942 35039205113462784
WBFS, 17940073 TB / 16316401 TiB
0 0000 0000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Partition not added.
0 0000 0000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Unknown 562489127 29786872529894297 29786871967405170 [fuû?ÁÏÙ8n¼ûÖó
ßµpô+)ÔD¦]
BeFS blocksize=4, 15250878 TB / 13870593 TiB
0 0000 0000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Partition not added.
block_group_nr 3125
recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 102400000 -B 4096 device" may be needed
recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=3125/7451, s_mnt_count=0/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=8192
recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096
recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 244182011
recover_EXT2: part_size 1953456088
Filesystem created: Wed Oct 18 01:36:19 2017
Linux filesys. data 2046 1953458133 1953456088
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Backup_SB, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
block_group_nr 3125
recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 102400000 -B 4096 device" may be needed
recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=3125/7451, s_mnt_count=0/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=8192
recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096
recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 244182011
recover_EXT2: part_size 1953456088
Filesystem created: Wed Oct 18 01:36:19 2017
Linux filesys. data 2048 1953458135 1953456088
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Backup_SB, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
cramfs Marker at 68877/87/55
recover_cramfs
Linux filesys. data 1106514540 1106967965 453425 [ÓXU
)ªÖª½]
cramfs, 232 MB / 221 MiB
cramfs Marker at 68877/87/56
recover_cramfs
Linux filesys. data 1106514541 1106967966 453425 [ÓXU
)ªÖª½]
cramfs, 232 MB / 221 MiB
cramfs Marker at 76561/185/58
recover_cramfs
Linux filesys. data 1229964177 1231336160 1371983 [GW¹¤Ø«Ý½Í(bdSÜ]
cramfs, 702 MB / 669 MiB
cramfs Marker at 76561/185/59
recover_cramfs
Linux filesys. data 1229964178 1231336161 1371983 [GW¹¤Ø«Ý½Í(bdSÜ]
cramfs, 702 MB / 669 MiB
LVM magic value at 96997/11/20
block_group_nr 6561
recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 214990848 -B 4096 device" may be needed
recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=6561/7451, s_mnt_count=0/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=8192
recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096
recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 244182011
recover_EXT2: part_size 1953456088
Filesystem created: Wed Oct 18 01:36:19 2017
Linux filesys. data 2046 1953458133 1953456088
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Backup_SB, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
block_group_nr 6561
recover_EXT2: "e2fsck -b 214990848 -B 4096 device" may be needed
recover_EXT2: s_block_group_nr=6561/7451, s_mnt_count=0/4294967295, s_blocks_per_group=32768, s_inodes_per_group=8192
recover_EXT2: s_blocksize=4096
recover_EXT2: s_blocks_count 244182011
recover_EXT2: part_size 1953456088
Filesystem created: Wed Oct 18 01:36:19 2017
Linux filesys. data 2048 1953458135 1953456088
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Backup_SB, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
NTFS at 121597/5/8
filesystem size 1953454080
sectors_per_cluster 8
mft_lcn 786432
mftmirr_lcn 2
clusters_per_mft_record -10
clusters_per_index_record 1
MS Data 2048 1953456127 1953454080
NTFS found using backup sector, blocksize=4096, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
NTFS at 121597/5/8
filesystem size 1953454080
sectors_per_cluster 8
mft_lcn 786432
mftmirr_lcn 2
clusters_per_mft_record -10
clusters_per_index_record 1
NTFS: Can't read MFT
MS Data 1953456127 3906910206 1953454080
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
This partition ends after the disk limits. (start=1953456127, size=1953454080, end=3906910206, disk end=1953458176)
Disk /dev/sdc - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - CHS 121597 255 63
Check the harddisk size: HD jumper settings, BIOS detection...
The harddisk (1000 GB / 931 GiB) seems too small! (< 2000 GB / 1862 GiB)
The following partition can't be recovered:
MS Data 1953456127 3906910206 1953454080
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
Results
Linux filesys. data 2046 1953458133 1953456088
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Backup_SB, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
MS Data 2048 1953456127 1953454080
NTFS, blocksize=4096, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
Linux filesys. data 2048 1953458135 1953456088
ext4 blocksize=4096 Large_file Sparse_SB Backup_SB, 1000 GB / 931 GiB
Linux filesys. data 1106514540 1106967965 453426 [ÓXU
)ªÖª½]
cramfs, 232 MB / 221 MiB
Linux filesys. data 1106514541 1106967966 453426 [ÓXU
)ªÖª½]
cramfs, 232 MB / 221 MiB
Linux filesys. data 1229964177 1231336160 1371984 [GW¹¤Ø«Ý½Í(bdSÜ]
cramfs, 702 MB / 669 MiB
Linux filesys. data 1229964178 1231336161 1371984 [GW¹¤Ø«Ý½Í(bdSÜ]
cramfs, 702 MB / 669 MiB
Hint for advanced users: dmsetup may be used if you prefer to avoid rewriting the partition table for the moment:
echo "0 1953456088 linear /dev/sdc 2046" | dmsetup create test0
echo "0 1953454080 linear /dev/sdc 2048" | dmsetup create test1
echo "0 1953456088 linear /dev/sdc 2048" | dmsetup create test2
echo "0 453426 linear /dev/sdc 1106514540" | dmsetup create test3
echo "0 453426 linear /dev/sdc 1106514541" | dmsetup create test4
echo "0 1371984 linear /dev/sdc 1229964177" | dmsetup create test5
echo "0 1371984 linear /dev/sdc 1229964178" | dmsetup create test6