Slawek Drabot wrote: > I have PATA HDD that is showing no signs of life: does not appear in any /dev > device listing whether plugged in through USB adapter or directly through the > IDE interface. > > Any way to get access to stored data? Do you hear/feel the drive spin up when you plug it in through the USB adapter? If the drive does spin up, do you see it in the output of lsscsi (or /proc/scsi/scsi if you haven't got the lsscsi package installed)? If so, then you may be able to get some data back with a command called photorec. It's available as a Ubuntu package, and does a good job of recovering whatever data it can (not just photos) from bad media. However, its success depends entirely upon the media itself.
If you can't see the drive as a /dev/sdX or /dev/hdX device, it's unlikely you'll get anything back from it without getting someone to transplant the electronics and motor from a working drive of identical model. I've never done this, but i understand it's possible (although quite expensive). Of course, restoring from your backup is a much cheaper and faster method. ;-) Paul
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