Dear all,
I hope I am not describing situation that is already available on forum.
During copying a data the external disk lost connection and from that time is not accessible under windows (communicate - disk is not formatted do you want to format it now?).
I have run analysis - under windows it was extremely slow ( 1%/1 hour).
Under linux was much better but:
when I run analysis first communicate is ----> Partition: Read error
quick search ---> Structure: Ok.
enter --------------> No partition found or selected for recovery
Deeper search ---->Structure: Ok.
enter --------------> No partition found or selected for recovery
log file is 1.4 GB large and contains line like:
file_pread(7,8,buffer,241537480(15035/3/17)) read err: Input/output error
What should I do to restore my data?
Is any hope?
with best regards
Artur
Lost partition/data - reed error message
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Re: Lost partition/data - reed error message
Unfortunately it looks like your problem is hardware related. Under linux, did you try to check SMART ? Is your disk well recognised ? Are you able to uplicate it to another disqk using bit to bit tools like ddrescue ?
Re: Lost partition/data - reed error message
Good afternoon,
Recently I had the same problem with my backup external HD of 500 GB. I've trying TestDisk a lot but I arrived nowhere ... My Windows 7 PC has taken 5 or 6 days to analyse the HD and I have a 5GB testdisklog file.
In the screen after analysis I find this:
Disk /dev/sdb - 500 GB /465 GiB - CHS 60801 255 63
No partition available
What can I do ?, is there any solution?
Many many thanks for your soft, for your web and for your effort. Happy 2015 !!
Recently I had the same problem with my backup external HD of 500 GB. I've trying TestDisk a lot but I arrived nowhere ... My Windows 7 PC has taken 5 or 6 days to analyse the HD and I have a 5GB testdisklog file.
In the screen after analysis I find this:
Disk /dev/sdb - 500 GB /465 GiB - CHS 60801 255 63
No partition available
What can I do ?, is there any solution?
Many many thanks for your soft, for your web and for your effort. Happy 2015 !!
Re: Lost partition/data - reed error message
More information about the problem I have.
After trying to Rebuild a BS I reached the screen I'm annexing.
I have to detail that when I started to have the problem, the PC was able to detect the disk (unit D:/), and I was able to reach most of the content of the disk, not all. But the PC did it very slowly, it was taking a lot of time to show the content of the unit. As I was not able to reach everything, AND I HAVE A SECOND BACKUP DISK (so my problem is not to recover the data inside, but to recover the HD itself to continue using it), I followed the windows suggest to format the HD. I never been able to format it from Windows, it seemed to be blocked in the format screen. I tried many times in different PCs (in a Windows XP and in a Windows 7), but I arrived nowhere.
Now the situation seems worse, as the PC continues to detect the unit once I connect it via USB, but it is unable to show the content and directly suggests to format it. And with TestDisk I obtain what I've explained.
Many thanks again for your work. Have a very good 2015 !!
After trying to Rebuild a BS I reached the screen I'm annexing.
I have to detail that when I started to have the problem, the PC was able to detect the disk (unit D:/), and I was able to reach most of the content of the disk, not all. But the PC did it very slowly, it was taking a lot of time to show the content of the unit. As I was not able to reach everything, AND I HAVE A SECOND BACKUP DISK (so my problem is not to recover the data inside, but to recover the HD itself to continue using it), I followed the windows suggest to format the HD. I never been able to format it from Windows, it seemed to be blocked in the format screen. I tried many times in different PCs (in a Windows XP and in a Windows 7), but I arrived nowhere.
Now the situation seems worse, as the PC continues to detect the unit once I connect it via USB, but it is unable to show the content and directly suggests to format it. And with TestDisk I obtain what I've explained.
Many thanks again for your work. Have a very good 2015 !!
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Re: Lost partition/data - reed error message
One more question:
as I have a second backup HD, IDENTICAL TO THE ONE I'M INTO TROUBLE (both are Iomega 500GB, same model), can I copy any file system or so from the good disk to the bad disk in order to rebuild the bad one ?.
as I have a second backup HD, IDENTICAL TO THE ONE I'M INTO TROUBLE (both are Iomega 500GB, same model), can I copy any file system or so from the good disk to the bad disk in order to rebuild the bad one ?.