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tonizito
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 Posted: Mon, 13th Mar 2023 22:03 Post subject: partition disappeared, WE ARE ALL FUCKING THEN! |
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So the partition on my 4TB WD passport USB HDD just up and vanished a few days back when I was about to copy data from a relative's old laptop to their new one. Everything was normal but after a few seconds after plugging it into the new laptop and before transferring the files, the partition straight up vanished.
Ran it on crystaldiskinfo, no SMART related (or any other) errors popped up. Also surface tested it with Partition Master and found nothing amiss.
Tried recovery with all of these so far
- Disk Drill
- EaseUS data recovery
- Disk Genius
- Acronis disk director
- Aomei partition assistant
- Diskinternals partition recovery
- Stellar Phoenix data recovery
And after several 5 to 22 hour scan sessions they can't find a single file.
Regarding data loss, it wasn't that much important, just a ton of cracled games, my complete mod collections for a shit ton of games including some that probably are not online anymore ( ), my emulator folder and some other backups.
I don't need to use the disk right now, so I'm not in a hurry and can leave it as is if there's a chance of recovering that data, even the names would be enough.
But honestly, I'm not sure if I can trust this disk ever again.
Any ideas/suggestions mens?
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Mon, 13th Mar 2023 22:09 Post subject: |
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Last edited by paxsali on Thu, 4th Jul 2024 22:59; edited 2 times in total
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| Posted: Tue, 14th Mar 2023 07:02 Post subject: |
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Also try Active@ Partition Recovery, it doesn't scan for deleted files but attempts to locate the partition boundaries and master file table, so if it isn't a hardware failure, you'll get your partition as it was before.
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tonizito
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Location: Portugal, the shithole of Europe.
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| Posted: Tue, 14th Mar 2023 17:11 Post subject: |
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| Guy_Incognito wrote: | | Also try Active@ Partition Recovery, it doesn't scan for deleted files but attempts to locate the partition boundaries and master file table, so if it isn't a hardware failure, you'll get your partition as it was before. |
Thanks for that suggestion.
Ok, after some six hours this one found ~386 lost partitions in a very bad state, but with 0 files on each of them 
0 bad sectors too, so at least there's that confirmed... again 
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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| Posted: Fri, 31st Mar 2023 02:22 Post subject: |
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Did you try powering it off, then on again?
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vurt
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Location: Sweden
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| Posted: Fri, 31st Mar 2023 02:35 Post subject: |
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HDD's are absolute garbage. i stopped using them completely now, these new large 4-8tb ones all die and usually it doesn't take too long, a year, if lucky two-tree years.. throw them out and you'll be a lot happier. never had a SSD failing in 15 years of using them.
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Apr 2023 14:21 Post subject: |
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i have 20 old (below 1tb) hdds lying around, but unlike most people, i only plug in the one i need when i need em, not a single one died sofar on me, cause they arent running 24/7 : In my country we had like retarded monthly download limits so we just went to lan parties and filled up hardrives with goodies . One drive i couldnt copy a movie from due to bad exctors, but thats a drive from 2004 ish and was just 1 gig of 250 that was kinda lost.
i have now one 3 tb and looking for a 6-8 tb one as a backup for all the other ones, but honestly all the stuff thats on em, i can just stream off the internet these days so might aswel just sell the precious metals inside the cases
i read there is good money for the internals as its some fancy precious metals in em
im actually impressed with all my hdds sofar but as said i never ran em 24/7
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DXWarlock
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Apr 2023 21:42 Post subject: |
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| vurt wrote: | | HDD's are absolute garbage. i stopped using them completely now, these new large 4-8tb ones all die and usually it doesn't take too long, a year, if lucky two-tree years.. throw them out and you'll be a lot happier. never had a SSD failing in 15 years of using them. |
Some are good if you are just wanting cold storage. The Purple WD ones for surveillance/camera recording seem to be tanks. Now they are not FAST for read/write, your not running any games off them, or an OS. But for transfering/storing long term where speed/time isnt a huge deal cant bet them.
I got a 4TB WD purple I got in 2016? 2015? that has been on and backing up every 6 hours my NAS box (a backup, of my live storage/backup) and so far not one issue with it.
Its at 66427 "Power on Hours" with 146812 GB "Total Host Writes"
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
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vurt
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Location: Sweden
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| Posted: Sun, 9th Apr 2023 02:59 Post subject: |
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i gave up on them completely even for storage. had a 4TB WD connected to my TV with tons of movies and series. Used it maybe 20-30 times in a year, then it just died. Before that i've had other bigger HDD's that also just lasted 1-2 years, for storage and that hardly ever got used.
i have 8.5TB of SSD storage, getting another 4TB at the end of the month.
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| Posted: Sun, 9th Apr 2023 10:49 Post subject: |
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are u setting them right next to some speakers or something maybe ? electric fields/ magnetism nearby?
ssds scare me, with their built in ticking down writes and a superhefty premium fee per gig compared to mechanical
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vurt
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| Posted: Sun, 9th Apr 2023 10:55 Post subject: |
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nope..
the speed difference alone makes it 100% worth it + feels way more reliable overall. also they're completely quiet and won't heat up your case either..
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| Posted: Sun, 9th Apr 2023 12:24 Post subject: |
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100tb here, replace a disk every 4 years. meh.
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