Recent content by MarshallLucky

Ok, great, thank you. I actually have Ubuntu installed (8 years ago) but can't remember my password (and Guest login apparently blocks access to the (non-boot) drives in question). But yeah i guess i can try a thumb drive, in the absence of sudden total recall.

Will that work on a Windows machine?

DMDE is able to see some files and i did recover a (single) sample file. However, when it is building the directory structure, it halts progress with "the request failed due to a fatal device hardware error". If i hit ignore it does the same thing but on next LBA (which i interpret to be a 512...

I have most of it, perhaps all, luckily. Part of this is an academic exercise for me, curious to see if i can do it. But so far, yes, it is exercise in hair pulling.

Regarding opening the drive, while i dont' claim to be an expert, the issue is dust. That is to say, mechanical damage to a hard drive surface. But there are cases where there is visible damage, way worse than what a dust particle would inflict, and yet data in the undamaged portion of the...

When i built this computer back in 2015, as i recall, i used the Windows disk mirroring capability. All worked fine until a month or so ago, when i noticed the V drive (used it for storage only, operating system was and is on separate drive).

I have a 3TB Seagate internal drive that was theoretically mirrored to an identical drive. The mirror apparently broke somehow and neither drive appears in Windows explorer. The previously appeared as the "V" drive, ie, behaving as a mirror should as one drive. Now there is no mirror and...