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solarbear · June 16th, 2017, 03:08 AM

Years ago, hard drive crashes were a common theme. it prolly wasn't that simple, but the theme was still "lost my collection..hard drive crash"

then i thought, what if that happened to me, mechanical drives are mechanical, and mechanical devices do fail, what are my options?....easy peasy...backups, and/or linux can and will see a failed hard drive and get files recovered. i just use a dual boot system with each OS on its own hard drive....so, two hard drives..kind of hard to do if not using a desktop though

just google "recover files from failed hard drive with linux"

I had an old seagate 1tb fail , BIOS error, smart test rejection. so, i went into BIOS and turned off the smart test on start option and viola, a last chance to mount the thing and get the data moved...

i won't trust a seagate HDD again after that..

June 16th, 2017, 03:08 AM	#265
solarbear Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2017 Posts: 462 Thanks: 62,358 Thanked 5,248 Times in 459 Posts	Years ago, hard drive crashes were a common theme. it prolly wasn't that simple, but the theme was still "lost my collection..hard drive crash" then i thought, what if that happened to me, mechanical drives are mechanical, and mechanical devices do fail, what are my options?....easy peasy...backups, and/or linux can and will see a failed hard drive and get files recovered. i just use a dual boot system with each OS on its own hard drive....so, two hard drives..kind of hard to do if not using a desktop though just google "recover files from failed hard drive with linux" I had an old seagate 1tb fail , BIOS error, smart test rejection. so, i went into BIOS and turned off the smart test on start option and viola, a last chance to mount the thing and get the data moved... i won't trust a seagate HDD again after that.. Last edited by solarbear; June 16th, 2017 at 03:14 AM..