Help with external RAW hard drive?

LarwikaByLarwika

Good afternoon everyone!

I've recently been having a problem with my external hard drive (Intenso SCSI 2 terabyte). I was about to play a game as usual, but Steam reported that all of my games, which are supposed to be on the external hard drive, weren't installed. And yes, I use this hard drive primarily for gaming because my regular SSD doesn't have enough storage space.

Well, plugging and unplugging the hard drive and restarting the PC didn't help, unfortunately. I've tried a few things, but so far, all to no avail (see pictures).

I'm not very familiar with this spectrum and am slowly becoming desperate, which is why I need your help. I hope someone knows more about this than I do and can help me. (Please let me know if you need other/more information.)

Thank you in advance!

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norbertk62
norbertk62
7 months ago

It doesn’t look good. You will see the disk as a “bad disk”. The partitioning type is MBR (Master Boot Record). This means that the partition info is only stored in a single area of the disk (difference to GPT). There is where the individual partitions lie, which file system is on it etc. But you don’t get the FS displayed so the problem should be in the partition sectors.

Just think: did the plate show any effects before (when it was still working)? Slow reaction, unusual sounds? Could be a headcrash – possibly the plate has fallen down or (in the running state) has been moved violently / possibly. Shock?

At this moment everything indicates a hardware damage to the board. Restore and backup.

You can read the values of the disk (disk info or something) and see if there are errors.

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Larwika
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Larwika
7 months ago
Reply to  norbertk62

Yes, among other things, the hard drive has not shown any reaction anymore, which is why I often had to disconnect it from the power (so the hard one, just pull plug because nothing left and plug it in again). She hasn’t fallen down, only she often showed 100% utilisation only in normal operation (without any video games in the background). The hard drive showed all the weird effects. She wasn’t always recognized and after I drove up the PC, the error message came directly that there was an error in this drive, but I couldn’t identify, because everything actually ran off without friction or the hard drive has acted normally

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norbertk62
norbertk62
7 months ago
Reply to  Larwika

That’s annoying – I’m writing:

  • each plate is divided into tracks/tracks and sectors (otherwise you could not store anything
  • At the beginning of the disk (at MBR) AND (only GPT) at the end, the partition data are stored (you have in the case MBR)
  • to this (Not visible!) each plate has a few tracks with free sectors – these are the replacements
  • then somewhere a sector is not easy to read, then everything that is to be saved is written into a substitute sector and the plate has a table (again: NOT visible) where the exchange is noted. Therefore, today (previously it was different) on a plate no (!) defective sectors are seen – precisely because they are entering substitute sectors.
  • At some point, however, the replacement sectors are used – then the plate tries to read several times when accessing a defective sector – that gives noise – ALARM – the utilization increases because the sectors are read more often.
  • sometimes you get mistakes when the computer is to read the record for the first time – so there may be. Errors in the partition table – KATASTROPHE. Sometimes (but not guaranteed) the sectors can be read – then it goes on. But if the reading process fails – errors. Can be irregular.

Therefore: Replay exchange and backup.

NB: You write that would be a SCSI plate – unusual. In a PC I would expect an IDE/SATA plate. Difference: SATA panels make it better to be switched off more often, SCSI/SAS are more server panels built to run through for months, then reboot, then go on. They should not be switched off permanently (yet worse: cool off).

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Neugier2022
Neugier2022
7 months ago

RAW means it’s clear.

That’s what happened in a data grave.

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Larwika
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Larwika
7 months ago
Reply to  Neugier2022

Yes, it sounds good at xD

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