Dying Hard Drive
A coworker just handed me his laptop's dying hard drive with several years worth of not-backed-up photos on it. The drive spins up fine and mounts in my USB enclosure but file operations fail with "Delayed Write Fail" shortly after I try to do anything. On Linux, I can't get a drive image with dd because the drive won't let me pull more than a few gigs before it won't transfer any more. On Windows, I can't seem to get anything to copy before the Delayed Write Fail. The fun part is that I've got write caching disabled on the drive in my Windows Device Manager so delayed writes shouldn't be happening. I've managed to take ownership of most of the photos I intend to save before the delayed write fail prevents me from getting more but I keep thinking there's got to be a better way to do this, especially since Explorer hangs before I can copy any photos off of it.
What I really want to do is get a raw drive image and work on the filesystem on a good disk. Any ideas?
-drasnor
What I really want to do is get a raw drive image and work on the filesystem on a good disk. Any ideas?
-drasnor
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PS: Just in case, make sure you have connected the auxiliary power of external USB enclosure. Especially with the old/failing disks, 500mA USB power may not be sufficient.
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