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Harddisk seems too small
Posted: 16 Feb 2021, 23:38
by pulledporkpoutine
Hello, I have an old external Iomega 1TB HDD that I have been attempting to recover data from on Windows 10. Years ago I split it into three partitions: two ~450GB drives (E and F), and one ~10GB drive G. One of the large drives, E, has been problematic. When I first plugged in the drive I was able to see the files present, but after trying to copy the whole drive and running into an error I haven't been able to see them since.
If I try to access E: in Windows, I get a "not accessible... access denied" message even though I have made sure there are no user control problems (opened as admin, set to full control, etc).
I have run chkdsk, used recuva, tried photorec, to no avail. I have run testdisk analyse and deep search. The files don't show up after I use Boot > Rebuild BS > List.
At first there were boot sector errors but now there don't appear to be any. However, I got this message:
https://imgur.com/XwySybm --
The harddisk seems too small!
Any suggestions?
Partition structure:
https://imgur.com/tU9wV7f
Boot sector:
https://imgur.com/KVSAfHa
Re: Harddisk seems too small
Posted: 17 Feb 2021, 17:57
by recuperation
Use smartmontools to extract a health log file of your drive. Search the forum how to do that.
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Post the content of your log file within code markers
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Re: Harddisk seems too small
Posted: 18 Feb 2021, 07:12
by pulledporkpoutine
Short test results:
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=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 42796 983216191
Will post long test results.
Re: Harddisk seems too small
Posted: 19 Feb 2021, 00:30
by pulledporkpoutine
Same results from long test as short test, it seems.
Re: Harddisk seems too small
Posted: 19 Feb 2021, 00:45
by recuperation
Do not run self-tests. Look here:
viewtopic.php?p=31986#p31986
Re: Harddisk seems too small
Posted: 02 Mar 2021, 02:57
by pulledporkpoutine
I'm sorry, I haven't been able to get anything other than this.
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smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-w10-1909] (sf-7.2-1)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
/dev/sdE: Unknown device type ',sat'
=======> VALID ARGUMENTS ARE: ata, scsi[+TYPE], nvme[,NSID], sat[,auto][,N][+TYPE], usbcypress[,X], usbjmicron[,p][,x][,N], usbprolific, usbsunplus, sntjmicron[,NSID], sntrealtek, intelliprop,N[+TYPE], jmb39x[-q],N[,sLBA][,force][+TYPE], jms56x,N[,sLBA][,force][+TYPE], aacraid,H,L,ID, areca,N[/E], auto, test <=======
Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
I tried smartctl -a /dev/sdE > C:\mylog.txt and smartctl -a -d /dev/sdE > C:\mylog.txt, including -d,sat[,auto] and so on. I don't know which of the -d commands listed on the following link I should use:
https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/USB
Re: Harddisk seems too small
Posted: 02 Mar 2021, 22:06
by recuperation
Write sde instead of sdE.
The bix "X" in my example was only supposed to be a visible placeholder symbol.
Re: Harddisk seems too small
Posted: 03 Mar 2021, 21:39
by pulledporkpoutine
That doesn't seem to change the output. How can I figure out which device type to use for the -d command?
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smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-w64-mingw32-w10-1909] (sf-7.2-1)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
/dev/sde: Unknown device type ',sat'
=======> VALID ARGUMENTS ARE: ata, scsi[+TYPE], nvme[,NSID], sat[,auto][,N][+TYPE], usbcypress[,X], usbjmicron[,p][,x][,N], usbprolific, usbsunplus, sntjmicron[,NSID], sntrealtek, intelliprop,N[+TYPE], jmb39x[-q],N[,sLBA][,force][+TYPE], jms56x,N[,sLBA][,force][+TYPE], aacraid,H,L,ID, areca,N[/E], auto, test <=======
Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
Re: Harddisk seems too small
Posted: 03 Mar 2021, 22:53
by recuperation
pulledporkpoutine wrote: 03 Mar 2021, 21:39
That doesn't seem to change the output. How can I figure out which device type to use for the -d command?
Google for how to find the
usb device id.
Post your findings. You can then compare it to the variations of the "-"-parameter.
Re: Harddisk seems too small
Posted: 04 Mar 2021, 19:23
by pulledporkpoutine
This is what is listed under the Device Instance Path:
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SWD\WPDBUSENUM\{0F0048B3-59C6-11EB-ACEB-10C37BDCA9FB}#0000000000007E00
Hardware ids: