I bought a hard drive from walmart and it came with internal documents for kelloggs (the cereal company)
But the drive seems to be failing and I can't copy some of the files off of it
Wondering if anyone has any ideas/tools for copying the files from the drive, thanks
some of the data that was readible
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how can you not copy files
if you can open you can copy
try and mount it on a GNU/Linux live USB or something. I've found Linux can sometimes read off the drive when Windows refuses to.
times out, hard drive is failing
can open some files but not others
just shows up as unallocated disk space on my laptop running ubuntu (in gparted)
Maybe you don't have support for NTFS?
Try unmounting then mounting it from terminal?
I'm not sure if it'd make a difference but I'd try that.
Stop plugging and unplugging it. Run a recovery program like recuva or kroll ontrack
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 63 1953520064 1953520002 931.5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfs
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/sdb1': No such file or directory
Make a disk image with dd first so you can always work from that
TAKE AN IMAGE OF THE DRIVE IMMEDIATELY. After that, unplug the drive and start working on a copy of the image(the original image should be kept read-only). If possible, use a tool which will try to recover data from bad sectors.
post juicy Kellogg's secrets
Send this to Wikileaks.
Make an image of the drive.
Sell to their competitors. Crop out information to make it look important. Don't ask for a lot. Couple of thousand.
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explosive stuff
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>how do filesystems work
No. Just because you can access metadata (and listing directory contents etc. is just that) doesn't anywhere mean that the disk area where the actual data is stored is readable.
This is fucking great.
Sending it into the PLA.
This. Putting strain to a failing drive should be avoided as much as possible, just read off it once sequentially.
On the other hand, I don't quite get how OP
>bought a drive at walmart
>there's a ton of some company's documents on it
>the drive is failing
Were you supposed to get a new drive? Haven't heard of walmart selling refurbs, and even if, then if it's failing you should return it as you're kinda screwed otherwise.
It was supposed to be a 5TB drive. The chassis says 5TB and whatnot, so the previous owner must have swapped it out and returned it with the old 1TB in it.
Yeah I'm gonna go back and try to return it.
Dump of 60MB that I was able to retrieve:
mega.nz
Kroll Ontrack is a program? Because from what I've heard it's a company (actually a subsidiary of Kroll) which specializes in professional data forensics and recovery.
>It was supposed to be a 5TB drive. The chassis says 5TB and whatnot, so the previous owner must have swapped it out and returned it with the old 1TB in it.
tfw I do this all of the time
>that corporate MS office chaos
the horror
.rdp
oh shit
Looks like crap, not surprised that it's failing
Going to try and dd it and then see what might be deleted
Don't know if it can dd 1TB successfully tho
Oh, so it's an external HDD in an enclosure. Still weird as fuck though.
>some smartfuck returns a failing 1TB drive in lieu of a supposed 5TB one
>except there's plenty of some company's documents on still on it
>walmart never actually checks the drive staying oblivious to both of the above
>walmart sells this returned drive to OP, presumably as a new one
>Yeah I'm gonna go back and try to return it.
You do realize that if the figure out now that it's not a 5TB drive then it will be you who's accused of trying to cheat them?
Yeah, I guess Kellogg's has to save money somewhere. Not a bad deal tho, 5TB for $70.
Yea, remote desktop session settings. Probably doesn't keep the password though, and may be for use inside LAN only.
Can you read the HDD's smart data and post a screenshot? Wonder what is failing exactly.
Damn that's pretty shitty.
Isn't EE a UK Telco? I'm surprised why it has documents from it, anyways have you tried using a recovery program to fix it? There's a lot of shitty programs on the net ofc, but I did manage to find one the fixed the documents of a work drive a few years back, can't remember the name though.
Probably electrical engineer
you bought this from walmart?
Yes
>5TB for $70.
woah woah woah
wait a second
where is this deal?
They sell used PC parts?
It was sold as new
It was in shrink wrap but the seal was broken and I didn't notice until I got home
he's saying that
>somebody bought a 5tb external drive
>took out the drive inside of it
>put a shitty old used drive back in
>returned it to Walmart
in other words, somebody committed a crime
They will always accept the return and believe the customer
source: I work for a small business
It's the kind of crime that hardly ever is punished, at least in my experience.
ddrescue isn't rescuing anything so might have to give up hope on finding any juicy deleted files
literally
>rescued: 0 B, errsize 1000 GB
Did you create a dd image first?
nope didn't work
You can stil access the disk, right?
If you can, ddrescue should work too. Fairly sure you're doing wrong.
Practice on a different disk first pls, you don't want to ruin this one.
Ggg
genius. Might have to try this.
On Windows, yes, some of it
On Linux, it doesn't seem to be able to read anything off of it even at a hardware level
Doesn't make sense. Are you using some shitty USB adapter or something?
Also, with a full image, you might photorec for more data. Maybe some working RDP files.
Nope, took it out of its case and plugged it straight in via SATA.
Reading the wrong device, maybe? Is this your first time doing this?
No/no, it shows it in fdisk -l but trying ddrescue from /dev/sda doesn't rescue anything
people get away with this and a lot more with Amazon
>buy designer sunglasses for $300
>take the case and glasses from the box
>replace with a knockoff from China purchased for $3
>send back and get full refund
Amazon doesn't inspect the product at all
basically all they do is verify that the weight of the package is accurate within like 25% and put it back on the shelf
on top of that, you can buy from a 3rd party seller off of Amazon
so Amazon can't even tell if you the consumer is the criminal or if the seller who sent you the item is selling fakes
>Blank food safety incident.doc
Whats this?
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Also can't mount sda1
And dd? What's the output there?
I got a friend who always gets ripped off on ebay and amazon, when i tell him shit looks fake like some raybans he goes on about how fake shit is only allowed on aliexpress and how the seller explains on his product page how to spot fakes and how the stuff he sells isn't fake.
The world is full of dumb goyim.
You're telling me that happened more than once?
With raybans yeah, it happens a lot. Also with expensive clothes brands. People believe whatever the seller tells them as long as it's not a chink.
OP ded?
Returned it to Walmart
Went to another store that said it had 3 in stock but they had none
Kind of a bummer
fucking Gayflor
JAMAL
fucking idiot
Two 5TB drives for $140 isn't that bad desu
Would have preferred buying 3 more but oh well
Think of all the corporate secrets you could have found, user.
this
holy shit i mad
sucks that it was found by some fag that cant use computers
Post what store you returned it to.