unallocated partition - ddrescue

[slyngej]

Hi i have a HDD i cant access and recover.
The partition seems to be unallocated in Gparted.
It cant be found with fdisk -lu
meanwhile, dmesg finds it but gives a lot of errors.
Still tried with ddrescue, but of course i couldnt do anything

Im a real idiot at this, so maybe someone can help???+

Cheers

steffen@steffen-ThinkPad-X61:~$ dmesg |tail
[ 1297.065415] blk_update_request: 84 callbacks suppressed
[ 1297.065417] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
[ 1297.065422] buffer_io_error: 105 callbacks suppressed
[ 1297.065425] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb, logical block 0, async page read
[ 1297.105530] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[ 1297.105541] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Sense Key : Aborted Command [current]
[ 1297.105547] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 Add. Sense: No additional sense information
[ 1297.105555] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 CDB: Read(10) 28 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 00
[ 1297.105560] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 0
[ 1297.105568] Buffer I/O error on dev sdb, logical block 0, async page read

 

[Jared]

It's not able to read sector 0, which normally isn't a problem for ddrescue as it'll just skip ahead and continue trying to read. However, obviously, that's not working.

I would guess that your drive's issue is worse off than just a few bad sectors. Perhaps it has a firmware issue preventing data translation and reding, or perhaps it has a failed read/write head preventing it from working. It's likely you'd need professional tools like PC-3000 to get any further with it.

If the data is worth more than a few hundred dollars, it's certainly worth letting a data recovery company evaluate it.