With raid 1 there should be hope if it was just a hard drive failure. If the controller is gone you might have another problem.

The first drive was gone a while ago, made a cheap decision not to get another one.

Did some research.so far, perhaps sticking it into drive enclosure will do a trick at this point.

Sad, really.

Lost a DNS server last night. Two HDs and PSU. Had obviously been in continuous use. The main thing to remember about hardware is that it has silicon and that expands and compresses with temperature. A box that's turned on each morning and off every night will not generally last as long one that is kept on all the time. Barracudas tend to be more reliable than some other brands (touch wood) so look for other possible sources of failures. If it uses an external PSU, check that (if you have a multimeter). If you can open the case, listen to the HDs when you start it up. If you hear the deadman's click from the drive, then it is a problem. Look at the connecting cables - SATA connectors vary in quality and can warp or come loose from vibrations (Robust PATA connectors were designed by engineers. SATA connectors were designed by accountants. :) ) It should be possible to take the HD out and test it on another controller so there may still be some hope for the data.

Regards...jmcc

Yep, it was clickin alright. So I got a new enclosure to see if something could be done.

So far NARA. I could see the drive in Disk Management on Win 10, all the partitions that were on it are there.

Tried using Ubuntu via VirtualBox to check if I could mount this drive via USB that way since from my understanding it was a Linux distro of sort running on Seagate.

Nope, no sigar, the device just shuts down.

Oh dear, that's something I don't like hearing.

Do you have other backups to restore from?

How long did that drive last?

12 years. It was RAID 1 before. 2 drives .

I am looking at it right now, looks so peaceful, had my Taxes on it for the past 12 years.

I still have hope that I could hack into it.

Could probably have it recovered. (Seems another HD here decided to fail in sympathy with others. Just bad sectors at the moment. Only a 6 year old drive though. Currently backing up about 2TB of data.) Deadman's click is generally a motor problem so as long as the platters are not damaged, there's a good chance the data could be recovered. Best get the data recovery done professionally rather than popping the top.

Regards...jmcc

So all the way back I had decided that the whole world is going to go BUNKERS anyway and shelved that project away.

Pulled both drives, disconnected NAS from network, unplugged it from the wall, etc....

100 + days later:

2 Days ago it started 'itching' again, badly; I needed to look at a backup of source code from 4 years ago. So 'hopped onto Internets' and started reading.

After about 2 hours I had an arsenal of HOW-2s & 3s.

Purchased($79) me some Pro Software to pull/backup the data & plugged the last drive that used to work into USB enclosure.

Me and My significant other whispering a prayer to the patron saint of lost things(St. Anthony) I Set off the Discovery.

After about 2 hours of scanning the poor thing the software came up with 620 GB of recoverable data! I was ecstatic to see the names of the folders with Images, Yes Pictures(taken by OLYMPUS Master 2 in 2007). Folders that held a back up of all things fine from my spouses cell phone camera from over the years! All the folders and files of my code! Software Licenses that I had purchased over the years.

BOOM moment that was!

Now all of this is being perpetrated in a lavish flower and veggies garden of mine, over by the huge Lavender bush. All excited now.

With the drive inside SATA enclosure plugged into a wall and a laptop - Now I was faced with another dilemma - I had no place to put that data onto in one shot transfer.

Run into the house and got spare 250 gb old laptop drive(USB) & 4 bottles of Gatorade. Mapped 2 network drives to a second laptop connected via WiFi - 200 GB and another 200GB on a separate machine.

Ready, Set, GO!

By 9:30 pm, casually 6+ hours of cruising over WiFi at 8-7 MB/s copying remaining 41 GB. I stick to my guns and wait and wait. I am still in the Garden, don't ask.... then again - Chuck Norris never sleeps, He waits.

By 11 pm I am a happy camper, the wait is over! Quick 'Smoke Test' on the existing structure of files copied over produces a fruitful result. Blend is out!

p.s. Upon crawling into a bed I declare a 'Uggge Victory over COMPOOTES' to my significant other and pass out in a good mood.

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Here comes the Sun. 5:30 am.

Large cup of Decaff + 3 Classic French Madeleines. Laptop, USB Drive. In the garden again.

Connected. Looking at the drive(s): contents. All .cfm, aspx, php, .js files are fine - cool, nice. Excellent.

Something aint right though - all .txt, .json, .xml, .config files corrupted. Over to a mapped network drive where the pictures the are: .pngs are OK. All .jpeg corrupted. $hit.

At this point reality is sinking in and it is a horrible one...$hit.$hit.$hit. Oh my.

:(.

With the last half of Madeleine Cookie in hand I rush to the house, grabbed hd enclosure and NAS drive. Run a full scan again, same amount of files found. Copy picture folders. Nara, all corrupted. Same story with the rest.

:(.

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But Wait, there is more....

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So all bummed out I am to deliver the final report about the Pictures and such = accept the defeat. With that comes the gilt and occasional gentile name calling for foreseeable future for wasting an entire yesterday, from the upper echelon of-cause. It is a given.

But here is the kicker: with the last hope I connect NAS enclosure to the network and turn on. No Sound. I gently slide the drive into it, no cracking sound... Holly .... So I try to access the NAS from my Win10 machine and get a message that SMB1.x not supported, hmmmm...... Settings, Add new Feature ++SMB 1 client. Restart.

Log In > Start > Run > \\BlackArmor220\ + Enter.

All files are intact on old Drive that is now in NAS Enclosure. Magic ah?

Now I am not a man of faith what so ever and tried to go Chuck Norris style on this task, kinking and kicking and screaming and typing Linux commands. Looking at the files copied files to 3 different drives and getting all upset by the end result of a hectic task.

.... Forgetting the possible outcome of a small prayer to patron saint of the illiterate and the poor, the finder of lost things, and the saint of small requests: It was there where I left it :)

Off to Prime, 2 2 TB drives > Raid 1 > ;)

Kinda in a good mood now! What gives?






















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Wow, what an experience, thanks for the update.
I'm so glad to hear you appear to have recovered the drive and data. Quick, move it somewhere else.

Keep the smiling face going. :)

It was your woohoo day! It happens too.