Hello Jow Forums
I'm desperately hoping you could help me out with something. I'm a programmer and don't usually delve into hardware. Today my Toshiba 1TB SATA HDD stopped being recognized by my BIOS. No clicking, no prior faults, nothing.
Is it dead for good?
Can I recover my data?
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Restore from backup
that held most of my backups :/
RIP
natural selection retard
>most
So restore from the ones that were elsewhere, what is the problem exactly?
Isn't any of your stuff on Github/Gitlab/BitBucket? Or was it non-programming related stuff that you lost?
he's not really a programmer, don't be so naive, an actual programmer would know to keep backups, this is just a kid
yes exactly, all my work is safe, but my private stuff was in there hence I care
i didn't expect a new drive to die so early
you said in that that drive held most of your backups, why don't you just restore from the ones that were not on it?
>Restore from backup
The problem is not in loosing software, but loosing hardware, smartass faggot, how do you backup the GPU? The PSU? Idiot.
i still got some of the originals on my phone and online, but the problem is im fairly certain it also contained things i may no longer have copies of . i know it sounds careless but i couldn't afford a new pc and this one's mobo is too old to support more HDDs so that's all i had
point is im afraid i might have lost irreplaceable private files
is not me
You could try to find an identical drive and swap the PCB on the back. This is a long shot in my experience, though, and I've only seen it work on older drives. Even then sometimes it powers on but can't read the data.
If you really, really need that data: www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com
bullshit, post mobo specs, there are absolutely no motherboards modern enough to use sata yet to only have one sata port
Congrats, you get to hire data rescue services for hundreds of dollars to get a chance that something may be recovered.
Also, go out and get more drives so you have a proper backup -or two- from this point onwards.
i'll have to let a professional handle it then as i'm not good enough for thanks. Thanks a lot for the help
the other one only has my OS and it's working fine
i fucked up, hopefully i can get some data back thanks guys
good enough for that*
If it's only on one disk, it's not a backup, retard. You didn't back up your files, you moved them to another disk, and now that disk is dead and your data is gone because you had no backups.
Install Gentoo
So, there are two types of people, those who have drives fail and those that haven't. You now join the former group.
I move a LOT of data around and have had multiple drives fail, I have TWO NAS drives (both RAID1 mirrors) that sync with ech other, plus a USB HD that I occasionally sync to (kept in the garage).
I also have family photos on Blu-Ray at my dads house.
Why do I have two NAS drives, well when one of those disks fails, and you replace it with a new disk, the remaining disk with data goes to 100% writing to the new disk _ THAT IS THE TIME WHEN THAT FUCKER DIES TOO! - Trust me, I'm a 44 year old nerdy mother fucker and you need multiple backups in sync or one day you will be fucked.
Also dont think RAID5 or RAID6 will help, the more disks the more chance one will fail. Had a DROBO5N that 2 of 5 drives failed in when restoring parity data to an original failed drive.
This shit got me wound up! lol.
tl;dr Read it all it might save your data one day.
try the obvious. plug it into another sata port. use a diff sata data and power cable, connect it to a diff sata controller (if your pc has one). plug it into another pc
if you're lucky it was the connection. otherwise
Could be "sticktion" - Static friction, drive might not be spinning up.
Can you take the drive so it's not in the case and hold it in your hand when you power the PC on, do you fell the disk spin-up?
If not it could be stiction - give the drive a firm sharp smack in the side, will hopefully help it spin up (google it, it does work, have done it once myself)
If the disk is just backups then buy a new disk and back your data up again.
boot pc linux. format disk to ntfs. boot windows and rum a data recovery software to retreve the data. did it this morning.
Consider it a life lesson.
You want two things:
- Redundancy (RAID1,6, or the ZFS/HAMMER2 equivalents)
- Backups (ideally, incremental and in a different physical location)
If you had either of these, you'd be totally fine now.
>loosing
*kisses you*
You are so knowledgable cuteanon
Yes Pajeet, your spyware loaded custom ROMs are recoverable.
I lost a 2TB drive, cheapest I found was about $250 for the recovery (and supplying a 2nd drive for them to recover to) most of the good stuff was backed up though, so paying that for some porn probably ain't worth it. (drive was less than a year old, sometimes is happens)
>DROBO
There's your problem. Instead of understanding how RAID works (which you didn't, else you'd never been so stupid as to use RAID5), you entrusted your precious data to some dubious black box appliance.
On top of that, you made the classic mistake of thinking that, just because you have a RAID, you don't need backups.
Ultimately, you got your very own Darwin price.
Ensure you have 1TB of room in some filesystem somewhere reachable, and try attaching it to a computer that has a good psu and is running a recent-ish Linux. If it enumerates at all, use gnu ddrescue. Read the info documentation before you try attaching anything anywhere. You might get lucky.
I-I wasn't the original poster. I just thought you were really smart and cute and I love you.
OK, then .
You need to replace the circuit board. However you have to keep the xact same firmware or bios whatever it is.
You can buy a new board ship your old one in to these guys, they do the soldering for you. Very cheap.
Fuck can't find the link but it's on one of those he pcb replacement shops
Didn't sound like he had just porn, user, else I'm sure he'd certainly not consider paying hundreds of dollars to data rescue services.
>Also dont think RAID5 or RAID6 will help, the more disks the more chance one will fail
RAID6 means that if one drive fails, you need to have TWO MORE fail before the drive is replaced [let's say you have bought a new one in a week] and rebuilt [takes a day or so].
There is very little risk of this happening, no matter how you fucked your array up.
Still, RAID isn't keeping you safe against maybe deleting what's on the array or such a thing, no. Have more copies, eh.
Don't bother with that. Disks these days are encrypted (look up OPAL). Typically that's true whether you've set it up or not. Different circuit board won't have the disk's key, and so it will never be readable.
>i'm a programmer, i don't know shit about hardware
The absolute state of programming.
Found it here dude: hdd-parts.com
>There is very little risk of this happening
Oh, how innocent you are. It's kinda cute.
obviously hes not a programmer and just wants tech support so "I'm a programmer" is an attempt to blend in.
Nah, more likely one of these 'webdev' types.
Churning PHP or Node.js.
>an actual programmer would know to keep backups
He did have backups.
Devcucks, when will they learn?
Nah, there just objectively is very little chance of it happening.
Girlish Number is fucking God tier.
>porn is the only data worth spending hundreds of dollars to recover
Yes it is, especially pic related.
A series best enjoyed with HD600 headphones.
>He did have backups.
He didn't have backups. He had his files stored on a separate disk. If you do not have at least two copies of the file, it's not backed up. Storing your files on a separate disk and not storing them locally is not a back up.
Meany
Hm. You might have a point there.
Ensuring the OP has the advice intended for him linked is mean just how?
Nepu!
Lemme guess, are you by any chance Idol Trash from /hpg/?
I know no idol trash. I'm innocent man. And I definitely do not use soy sauce, ever.
Yes, also totally not drooling over Umi.
Who's umi, and why's she the best girl?
Who knows. Maybe because she doesn't sperg out over pics of cute grills wearing headphones with bare feet visible.
If I liked umi and/or nico, I would be too busy grinding the current llsif jp event to post on headphone threads. At most, I'd be posting in random boards between songs.
This video might be of interest to you, user: youtube.com
It shows you how to safely open a HDD and move the heads off the platter.
By how you describe sounds like the logicboard kicked the bucket, you might get lucky if you send it to a data recovery specialist centre. DONT try to to do it yourself, you cant and will fuck it up for good, the data might still live fine on the platters but you need them to access it.
