Old HDD

Found this old HDD in my house, I think it's about 10-15 years old. The serial number on the control PCB leads me to believe it's a Seagate drive, any other numbers on the casing turned up blank on google. Using a SATA/USB adapter I can get it to spin up but windows isn't recognizing it at all. Any ideas? I'm really interested to find out what's on it

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After 15 years the drive might be completely fucked
Try using it as a regular drive with SATA or test your USB adapter with a different drive

The adapter is fine, it works with other drives. I'll fire up my desktop with the drive in it tonight and see if it yields anything. Is there any way to find the model of the drive from the casing? I think the control board might be blocking a serial number so should I unscrew it?

a mechanical disk doesn't fail if properly stored in dry area. what probably happened is hdd is clogged and can't spin inside, i dont know what you can do to address this though

>Seagate
There's your problem

Sorry to say your mother's sex tape might be lost for good.

I'll upload a vocaroo of the noise it makes when spinning up gimme a few minutes

>After 15 years the drive might be completely fucked
I have drives from '76 that still work fine

That's only anecdotal.
Amount of usage (and regularity of usage) can play a part, along with drive design and room climate.

And I have hard drives from 2016 that are dead.

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Here's what it sounds like when spun up

Those first 3 taps aren't from the HDD by the way, just the whirring noise and the scratchy disk-read sound

It's Dead.

Did you check under the sticker?

I'd recommend booting up a live linux usbdrive and checking it out in gparted before you declare it dead. Linux can recognize drives that sometimes windows can't

will do, thanks fampai

if you found it in your house then that means its one of your old drives doesnt it? It has CP I bet.

I'd try connecting it directly to the PC as the C:\ drive. I've had in the past gotten some shit virus or trojan that messed with the boot sector of the drive saying it was not FAT32 so if connected as a spare drive windows would not recognize it. But connected as the main C:\ drive it would boot up and load windows but run slow as fuck. It was a pain pulling out all my important files out to USB but it was the only way, then I reformatted the drive.

After that I only ever keep important files on a spare drive and never on the C:\ drive.

this / try some kind of file recovery software. the partitions might be screwed up but there could still be readable information on it.

Put it in the freezer in a bag for a few minutes, then try again.

will try all this too thanks, also no I'm not a pedo

>Put it in the freezer in a bag for a few minutes, then try again.

you made him fall for that? if there was ever a chance it will be dead now from condensation. most drives are not fully sealed and have a hole with a filter. inside humidity and pressure equal the room. and you never have 0% humidity unless in the arctic.

It's not a troll attempt, people who had stuck HDDs really managed to revive them with that

Old maymay, same as baking the hdd.

You mean baking the GPU? That sometimes works too, but also just for a short while

It's trash. If windows doesn't recognize it, it's either completely dead, or has linux installed on it. Either way, throw in trash as-is. No one can recover data from that garbage.

your complete lack of skill and knowledge completely digusts me.

wut? explain...

Ok just talked to my brother and apparently it's from an old external HDD he had that he took out of its enclosure, which explains the lack of documentation or stickers

I baked a gpu once. Was already fucked when it was given to me. Old gtx 8800. It went from non boot able to booting with lines and artefacts on screen. So there is some truth to it.

Heh, reminds me of the ole stick the red ring 360 in the oven trick.

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Baking an old GPU is actually a trick that works but it will fuck up your GPU forever after, so you only do it to bring things back.

Baking a GPU works but it contaminates the oven in the process. Do not use an oven you use to prepare food or you'll contaminate the oven and any food that goes into it with solder fumes. You should use a toaster oven instead of a full-size oven since they're cheaper.

Boot into a gparted livecd and check out the drive there. Based gparted can see shit a lot of other driveutils can't - certainly those Windows-based.

The GPU is the thing under the fan and between the card and the shroud. This motherfucker ripped it off the PCB and the only way to fix it is to buy a new card

actually i was referring to his post saying that I lack skill and knowledge.

It worked for me once, the HDD died within a week tho, but that was enough for a backup.

>his storage options barely last a decade
Absolutely pathetic

I use a 12 yr old 60gb hdd to store porn. The day it dies is the day I'll stop hoarding porn. I feel like it's never going to die though.

that's baking gpus or motherboards. I've revived a few old HP dv4's and other shiity hp laptops from mid-late 2000s, as they all had overheating problems and would usually cook itself to death.

Some chips on those boards are attached by tiny beads of solder, and they sometimes weaken over time, especially if the chip in question runs on the hot side without proper cooling, and they lose connection. heat up all the solder beads at once, cause them all to soften and the chip settles ever so slightly making a connection to the solder beads that it lost connection with. This fix can allow the device to work generally for a short amount of time. I've had some laptops only last a week, and some that lasted for a few years.
The correct way to this is with a re-flow machine, but they are very expensive.

Use gparted. Windows diskpart and partition manager often fucks up.

Well shit. I'm gtx 8800 guy. I've eaten out of that oven. Am I gonna die?

expect cancer in 20-30 years

ay buddy, those things cant get enough power through a usb adapter. hook it up to a power supply and regular sata

Someone went through a lot of trouble to remove all the identifying labels. Would make me very curious, also.

As suggested gparted running of a bootable flash drive is about the safest method to find out if the drive can even be accessed and how it's formatted, etc. I'd strongly suggest going with that first and see how far you get. At that point, start making decisions based upon that experience & info.


I am impressed you took that pic with gloves/ Always a good idea to prevent photos of your fingerprints from being circulated on 4chinnz.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>Always a good idea to prevent photos of your fingerprints from being circulated on 4chinnz.
are you ok?

The adapter has a power supply and the drive spins up

No gloves, just over-exposed from the flash. My phone camera isn't high res enough to gather any fingerprint data anyway

Try fdisk this sometimes recognizes stuff gparted can't

>I'm not a pedo
it's okay user none of us isn't

>in the freezer in a bag
>condensation
pick one