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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Help recovering a (software-dead, not hardware dead) hard-drive

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Help recovering a (software-dead, not hardware dead) hard-drive
  • From: "Prof J C Nash (U30A)" <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:55:26 -0500
Indeed. sudo needed. I tend to run sudo su before doing this sort of work, but recognize the hazards.

JN

On 13-02-27 09:49 AM, Shawn H Corey wrote:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:34:12 -0500
ed stuckems <edstuckems [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote:

n Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:29 AM, Prof J C Nash (U30A)
<nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca> wrote:
I've noticed that my usb-SATA cables sometimes need to be checked
(pulled apart and reconnected). It looks like

reconnected the cable and still nothing.


fdisk -l

isn't showing the device? Realize this may be a long shot.

actually "parted -s /dev/sd{a,b,c,d,e,f}" is failing to connect to the
device.  I've shied away from fdisk given that I eventually want to
work with a drive that's been formatted with a GUID Partition Table.
My understanding is that fdisk doesn't handle GPT formatted drives.

The drive is only about 2 years old and has hardly been used so don't
worry about long shots.  At this point I'll try anything to get it to
function again.

Shouldn't that be: sudo fdisk -l

When you plug in the drive, does /dev/disk/ get a new entry?