I just received a brand new 8 TB drive, and I think I’ve ruined it. I had it sitting loosely on my case while I was copying to it (I know, I’m a moron) when it fell. The SATA power connector came unplugged and it was hanging by the data cable.
It’s been screwed since then. I can see it with Gnome-disks, but the partition seems to be gone. It’s saying 2 bad sectors, but when I ran badblocks, it got up to 600,000,000 before I stopped it.
I’ve tried gparted (won’t detect it), testdisk (no luck) and fschk (I/O error, superblock could not be read). When I try to format it with Gnome-disks, I get:
“Error wiping device: Failed to open the device ‘/dev/sdb’: Device or resource busy (udisks-error-quark,0)
I keep hoping there’s just some corrupt data as opposed to physical damage. I’m hoping there’s a way to brute-force format it. Any help would be appreciated.
If it matters, it’s an 8 TB Toshiba NAS drive.
Try a sudo fsck -s /dev/sdx1 replace your drive of course
I would be curious knowing the output for sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb before attempting repairs.
Just to be more clear here, unmount it before attempting this. And I would personally not start by letting it blindly fix whatever it finds with -y, but that is of course up to you.
that’s was supposed to be a -s
Personally I’d run GParted or KDE Partition Manager. If it shows bad in either one of those then yes the data will most likely be unsaveable. If you haven’t tried it yet I would switch data cables and check it again before trying to either reformat it or fox it.
A side note but very important do as little read / write operations on the drive as possible to you determine of the data on it can be saved.
When you break a dish plate, do you put it back together and eat from it again?
Do you always assume it’s actually broken? Hate to say it but Hard is right.
The glass and ceramics restorer says: yes, why not?
I’d get it RMA or do a Warranty replacement if there’s no physical damage. Unfortunately, you will get a refurbished one from the manufacturer but at least you know it passed QA.
I’ve done that, no dice. There’s no partition detected, so it was just /dev/sdb
I’ve now disconnected it because it was really slowing down reboots, but I did try that. I can’t remember what the output was, but it wasn’t successful. I think it might have given me an i/o error message. I’ll try it in the morning and see what it says.
I should’ve elaborated, there’s no data on it yet. It’s a brand new drive, I had only managed to create a partition. I’m trying to get it to be usable, but I don’t think that’s happening.
In your analogy, I’m not sure the ‘dish plate’ is even broken. Perhaps it’s just a corrupt superblock or something. That’s why I’m asking for help.
Yeah, the problem is that it’s my own stupid fault so I don’t know if they’d do anything. I’ve already ordered another one because I’m kind of in a pickle without it. I guess I can try an RMA now that I don’t need this one urgently anymore.
