data recovery and disk checking tools

[mint gate]

looking for tools that could recover partition tables for data recovery and tools to check for disk errors to see if they are good enough to keep storing files on them

[final tundra]

most modern disks actually know their own health, and you can ask them nicely about it with smartctl

smartctl is provided by extra/smartmontools

[mint gate]

well, i got outdated disk

abt half of them use non SATA connections

(idk the name of those connections)

[final tundra]

newer IDE drives also have SMART support

its not as new as you'd think

give it a try

[mint gate]

i will

now i just need a way to recover files of some disks if possible

[final tundra]

what filesystems were those disks on

[mint gate]

idk

some could have stored old versions of windows

ive seen mentions of xp on a few

(wriiten with a marker on them)

[mint gate]

is running it with -H flag enough, or should i look into it more by using -a or -x flags?

@final tundra one of the disks returned an unusual result, what does this mean?

[mint gate]

another one

[final tundra]

this one does not have smart

[mint gate]

thats what i though, what abt the other?

[final tundra]

idk probably too old for its smart to be useful

[mint gate]

also abt a third of the disk wouldn't show up when plugged in for some reason, even though they did last time i checked them

[final tundra]

well these disks are probably unsafe to store data on by this point

[mint gate]

yea

ill just recover data if possible and take them apart

either way 3tb one has passed so i'm glad abt that

[mint gate]

checking them again, one showed up and shows this error

@final tundra any idea what it means?

another one

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similar one

also few of the disks asked me to enable smart by adding -s on flag