Search
Search titles only
By:
Search titles only
By:
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Feedback
View Statistics
Members
Current visitors
Buy Sell Trade
WTB
Log in
Register
Search
Search titles only
By:
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Install the app
Install
Reply to thread
Forums
Technology
Computer Hardware
External drive issue
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Message
<blockquote data-quote="JaredDM" data-source="post: 2080990" data-attributes="member: 62338"><p>First off, beware that a 3TB Seagate is a recipe for disaster all in itself. If it's the notorious ST3000DM001 they have <a href="https://www.data-medics.com/data-recovery-blog/seagate-st3000dm001-data-recovery-warning/" target="_blank">close to a 40% annual failure rate</a>.</p><p></p><p>Seagate does not do any encryption or other "tricks" to lock you out of the drive. The issue is your sector size. The drives are physically 4K sector size, however they emulate a 512 byte sector size when natively connected via a SATA connection. The USB -> SATA bridges that Seagate uses however re-emulate a 4K sector size back to the system. So what's happening is that your partition table is written to fill a 4K sector, but the sectors are only an emulated 512 byte size now. So the MBR is needlessly spread across 8 virtual sectors now, however it should fit within a single sector.</p><p></p><p>All you need to do is connect it to a Windows system without the enclosure. Run testdisk from CGSecurity and search for the partition. Once it finds it you'll have the option to let it write a new partition table back to the drive (which will now be a 512 byte table and reference the right offset).</p><p></p><p>Enjoy!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JaredDM, post: 2080990, member: 62338"] First off, beware that a 3TB Seagate is a recipe for disaster all in itself. If it's the notorious ST3000DM001 they have [URL='https://www.data-medics.com/data-recovery-blog/seagate-st3000dm001-data-recovery-warning/']close to a 40% annual failure rate[/URL]. Seagate does not do any encryption or other "tricks" to lock you out of the drive. The issue is your sector size. The drives are physically 4K sector size, however they emulate a 512 byte sector size when natively connected via a SATA connection. The USB -> SATA bridges that Seagate uses however re-emulate a 4K sector size back to the system. So what's happening is that your partition table is written to fill a 4K sector, but the sectors are only an emulated 512 byte size now. So the MBR is needlessly spread across 8 virtual sectors now, however it should fit within a single sector. All you need to do is connect it to a Windows system without the enclosure. Run testdisk from CGSecurity and search for the partition. Once it finds it you'll have the option to let it write a new partition table back to the drive (which will now be a 512 byte table and reference the right offset). Enjoy! [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Technology
Computer Hardware
External drive issue
Top
Bottom