Trying to connect laptop hdd via IDE to USB cable

[DarkChild]

Well if that's the case put the drive in the freezer.....no really.I've done this before and it worked lol.


Get ready to grab stuff of your drive.
put the damn thing in the freezer.
I did mine for 10 mins.
Then take it out,and connect it.
Use what ever app to try to grab the data,and do it quick!!When it warms up it won't work.

Granted I did this a few years ago,and drives might have changed a bit,but you wont hurt anything to try.


...and no this is not a joke!

The freezer method always seems to do the trick for me. I once had a doc file with some 200 ways to recover a hard disk

[Cell]

O.K. then........just to recap.when you connect you r usb drive it just doesn't get recognised?or it gets recognised,but you can't access it?

[k50aker]

sorry for not being so clear, fdisk -l sees it after alot of effort, it does show up in computer but when it tries to mount it it gives me that error. therefore i cannot access the drive.

[DarkChild]

I did a little digging & found the PDF of "200 ways to revive a hard drive" You can download it from the link below!!

[Admin-Amir]

Good work darkchild666.

k50aker try to un mount the drive firs:

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umount /dev/partitionId

then try to mount it again :

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mount /dev/partitionId /some/mounting/point

[Cell]

so what happens when you....

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sudo mount -all

?

[k50aker]

im trying the freezer method now, im not gonna leave very long there (about 15 20 minutes) but that should be long enough to know if it does anything to it, if it will be accessible for long enough for the system to mount it then i know that it should work if i put in my commercial freezer overnight.

I'll keep u guys posted soon, rebooting to connect my primary hdd (using a live usb now since i tried to boot from the problematic hdd).

after i reconnect ill try -all.

Thanx a million u guys, and ill sift through that 200 ways document 2 see if i find some that i have not tried yet.

[k50aker]

no good news. here is some stuff that i got now:

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root@ubuntu:/home/hitech# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x578b578b

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       30400   244187968+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19452 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe686f016

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1       10199    81923436    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2           10200       19452    74324722+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5           10200       10691     3951958+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb6           10692       19452    70372701   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdg: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdg1               1           7       56196   de  Dell Utility
/dev/sdg2   *           8        4373    35069895    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdg3            4374        4863     3935925   db  CP/M / CTOS / ...
root@ubuntu:/home/hitech# mkdir /media/sdg2
mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/sdg2': File exists
root@ubuntu:/home/hitech# mount /dev/sdg2 /media/sdg2
mount: special device /dev/sdg2 does not exist
root@ubuntu:/home/hitech# ntfs-3g /dev/sdg2 /media/sdg2
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/sdg2': No such file or directory
Please type 'ntfs-3g --help' for more information.

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[Admin-Amir]

O.k not good news.
I made a package for you with file recovery and more,
there is 2 small iso in it so you need to burn theme.
hope that will do the trix:
http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=cmqgr2wjcwd

[k50aker]

cannot download it for some reason (gives me the option to open but does not download) can u email it 2 me?