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Old September 3rd 04, 12:22 PM
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On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 11:24:48 +0200, "Joep" j o e p @ d i y d a t a r e c o v e
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*Sometimes* ... So, maybe it's the nature of the problem that prevents the
disk from being detected.


Failure to mechanics seems to be the problem causing the non-detection
problem.
Unfortunatelly the "sometimes" is now "nearly always".

How do you know? How did you come up with the 80%?


When the disk was detectable then about 20% of files could not be read.
This was not because bad sectors (the disk did not have any AFAIK), but
because of the mechanics failure (when it started to have the symptoms of the
failure also 20% of data became unavailable).

You should try to clone it as long as you can see it. However, every read
may worsen the condition of the disk, in general it is advised to cease DIY
recovery attempts (if the data is important to you) when a disk is maing
unusual and scary noises.


Yes, it seems that the condition very quickly became much worse.

Your issue is a psychological one. You can not accept that there are
situations you can not resolve and have no control over. Apart from


How can I know that? If they designed it that way that it should not be
detectable when mechanics fails, then maybe also for the service purpose they
designed it also to be possible to disable that feature, making the disk
visible despite mechanical failure.
I hoped that someone knows how to disable that feature.

Why do you want to know?


If someone has such disk with bad electronics, but good mechanics, then I
could use the mechanics to recover my data. Just for one time recovery even
opening the disk in not sufficiently clean condition possibly could work.

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