From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Sep 17 22:57:46 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C7E0E0B933 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2017 22:57:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shamim.shahriar@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wr0-x22e.google.com (mail-wr0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c0c::22e]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B1C7C7180B for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2017 22:57:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from shamim.shahriar@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wr0-x22e.google.com with SMTP id l39so4918718wrl.12 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2017 15:57:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to; bh=xKE+b+Q7SNyb0ylyATEzmOHyKYUzkmzme2ynGMjFy9Q=; b=OtmEWqz/CqNEcvX94i77jScjvdbFFYPZwQBTVqsqOH3DN+ZbNwFriGOkey2OXsjO+H 9rhtipAMHFiReGJI6ESTRcWOqRJUVGJ0H5xydjxC0NU8MVwWxG/6BY/Hjaa6731EnT9Z jAW2BP4DmpLgZVydGnLALcTuHNEkd3wWm/zmQw4Pzb+sJFag7a/GnQrLBL6tsYfEiRDg pGZ0tJzB8VQRBhTvAejcx9hQ8Ac78qlMVTWPyedBrJV+/Fq4Z2w9drxkxMTjT0Nlbp/S XC0k/YGlu27qkYd6tWU+Nd/pDgzRou4oz176gDA4rEZlI2HVKa6XBlyEqesFCRP81tzr Cv+A== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:cc:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to; bh=xKE+b+Q7SNyb0ylyATEzmOHyKYUzkmzme2ynGMjFy9Q=; b=GF80iRxKEEtmV/TEwFnmy9CA1THIGIMUHB++3T2qEuniOitb7wSGEWQPEdw8uzapRr f7CTLgCn7bUbpj+/QE5wGiUBmudyhv9p5irJKktvjDJat6Z+pwD5Ru1epjHFLA0nscHO dlP8Hy+9Nn3CIK3hnpkxx0B/YyJejHb8Z4VvCUjtxaYAyJAkTJIqS6UyRLCN99zxXmc1 GJ8Gkpq6hisOFPf3c3N5ipH6Vvnc09tGxexeJG9F1s6L6dTi0bX7Kux25M1X817QhA8X MVYIE4rktUpClnjzLQth3jt5ARf/CHD126NeYD4SqAYWDCvkNXVaEao3opnW6TXm10zr effw== X-Gm-Message-State: AHPjjUgzbtLx8CcxbkgQDVxjfBCVCQaIPI3aXC6/cZd+L0VB+hTIL5RK jSX/KsJI1mCXJkLH X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADKCNb5g1TGHT89NddVqWcCAIhf0Vn42YPuJDH8NjBvTrkgUytXVumNs4u6Zp1EzELzYuq1WFk8nyw== X-Received: by 10.223.131.193 with SMTP id 59mr26687086wre.157.1505689063835; Sun, 17 Sep 2017 15:57:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from osk.homenet ([2001:470:196e:17:f2de:f1ff:fed1:783c]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id f19sm6944041wrf.85.2017.09.17.15.57.42 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 17 Sep 2017 15:57:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Recovering data from a broken HDD To: Adam Vande More References: Cc: Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions From: Shamim Shahriar Message-ID: <8ac1423e-d996-bcdb-3068-ebe8ba7718c4@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 23:57:42 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 22:57:46 -0000 On 17/09/2017 23:51, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Shamim Shahriar > > wrote: > > Good evening all, hope everyone is well. > > a little background: > I have a couple of portable HDD. One of them was dropped a few > weeks back, and then the computer stopped recognising it and asked > it to be formatted. Once formatted, it appeared to start working > again -- even though all previous data had been lost, and no, I am > not trusting that device to hold any important data. > > Last week, another HDD slipped through the hands (literally). This > one too is showing the same/similar symptoms as the previous one. > I believe that the data is still there, but somehow the alignment > has shifted and hence the HDD controller is unable to provide the > data. I am wondering, can anyone please suggest a data recovery > programme that I can try on the drive? The HDD being not in the > western/relatively-more-techy region cannot be sent to a data > recovery company (and I have been told they cost you a fortune), > but have access to m$ or Mac or Linux or BSD systems. So if anyone > could please suggest something to try on (Yes, I had been on > google, and found a huge amount of tools -- but I would much > rather try out something that someone has already tried and can > give some insight on). > > > recoverdisk(1) > > -- > Adam thanks Adam, that looks really interesting. I will try that as soon as I get a large enough drive to put the data on (once the shops open). In the meanwhile, if anyone has any other suggestion, please do feel free to chime in. Best regards