Status
Testdisk tool :
TestDisk 7.1, Data Recovery Utility, July 2019
Christophe GRENIER <grenier@cgsecurity.org>
https://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/sdb - 1000 GB / 931 GiB - WD Elements 1048
CHS 121600 255 63 - sector size=512
[ Analyse ] Analyse current partition structure and search for lost partitions
>[ Advanced ] Filesystem Utils
[ Geometry ] Change disk geometry
[ Options ] Modify options
[ Quit ] Return to disk selection
- I Can identify the drive. (this is probably the rom/bios informations of the pcb)
- Unable to identify / read the partition table. (this is written on the disk)
- The analyse process didn't give anything good :-(
Smartctl result :
# smartctl /dev/sdb -a
smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-60-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Elements / My Passport (USB, AF)
Device Model: WDC WD10JMVW-11AJGS0
Serial Number: WD-WXJ1E23CVTX5
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 25e13a484
Firmware Version: 01.01A01
User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes [1.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5400 rpm
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 3.0 Gb/s (current: 3.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Fri Feb 24 14:05:24 2023 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Status not supported: Incomplete response, ATA output registers missing
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Warning: This result is based on an Attribute check.
See vendor-specific Attribute list for marginal Attributes.
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x80) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 22) The self-test routine was aborted by
the host.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (16624) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x70) No SMART execute Offline immediate.
No Auto Offline data collection support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
No Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x9080) Does not save SMART data before
entering power-saving mode.
Error logging capability: (0x31) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 32) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 4) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 144) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x7035) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 21504
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
33 Unknown_Attribute 0x8050 113 001 040 Old_age Offline In_the_past 158398941233254
144 Unknown_Attribute 0x2200 001 048 022 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 142047453380628
160 Unknown_Attribute 0xa00c 064 016 064 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 25198624
176 Unknown_HDD_Attribute 0x0014 042 000 080 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 71743141875792
16 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 016 033 000 Old_age Offline - 54494817943812
128 Unknown_Attribute 0x0040 032 017 000 Old_age Offline - 36714995515680
80 Unknown_Attribute 0x2020 068 000 --- Old_age Offline - 154637959184
129 Unknown_Attribute 0x0020 000 054 020 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 499038294088
32 Unknown_Attribute 0x3040 004 000 111 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 636192555056
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x8041 088 001 068 Pre-fail Offline In_the_past 70421359624720
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x1010 080 016 --- Old_age Offline - 33092 (32848 11008)
32 Unknown_Attribute 0x4000 004 023 111 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 1120986464305
32 Unknown_Attribute 0x0010 000 032 111 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 193738190358646
160 Unknown_Attribute 0x0034 032 144 064 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 176283179810832
16 Unknown_Attribute 0x0150 048 128 000 Old_age Offline - 17663053058308
16 Unknown_Attribute 0x8174 008 016 000 Old_age Offline - 158381220306944
18 Unknown_Attribute 0x0021 128 001 --- Pre-fail Offline - 163071587000650
161 Unknown_Attribute 0x2024 000 000 --- Old_age Offline - 4400234893312
48 Unknown_Attribute 0x3130 016 161 --- Old_age Offline - 19104306069780
33 Unknown_Attribute 0x0040 108 016 040 Old_age Offline In_the_past 275416879120
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x0064 000 032 068 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 500382834784
49 Unknown_Attribute 0x8074 000 033 052 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 79459579330576
144 Unknown_Attribute 0x9010 000 097 022 Old_age Offline FAILING_NOW 159929839427844
SMART Error Log Version: 0
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 0
Warning: ATA Specification requires self-test log structure revision number = 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x2800):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Read disk
Naturally, ... no way to read even one sector of the disk.
# dd if=/dev/sdb bs=128K count=1
dd: error reading '/dev/sdb': Input/output error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes copied, 0.00490512 s, 0.0 kB/s
PCB swap
- Same noise / mechanical issue (sure 90% that the issue is mechanical)
My Options
- Data recovery lab ( too expensive regarding the data's ) ~80% chances of success.
- Transplant the disk plates into a new disk (+ swap the bios chip) ~20% chance of success (the plate have to stay aligned, ... hard operation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9P4UadR...)
- Transplant the heads of a new drive into this drive in a "relatively clean room" ~35% chances of success ? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_vssaUR...)
- Cancel the recovery and avoid the sacrifice of a new 1tb disk