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Titor
Aug 26, 2014
If I wanted to recover lost data on a healthy HDD, would there be any risk involved if I were to boot from a storage device or a connect it to a computer to only read from? I'm curious whether or not you decrease the chance of recovering data from using these methods.

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Titor
Aug 26, 2014
http://i.imgur.com/EPbOp4A.png

I've been experiencing HDD issues and found this in my SMART log. Very notable is the Calibration Retry Count. Is it telling me that I should replace my HDD?

Titor
Aug 26, 2014

Alereon posted:

Yes, though replace your SATA cable, run a memory diagnostic, and fix your case ventilation too. Your drive is running extremely hot, and the interface CRC errors mean either a problem on the SATA cable or system RAM.

E: Geemer is right the temperature is fine, all of my drives hold current temperature in C in the current column so I assumed that one did too. My bad!

Temperatures are completely fine; I keep my system ventilated enough and neatly internally organised.
I replaced the Sata cable and did a memory diagnostic, issue still remains.
My HDD often keeps spinning up and down while making a clicking noise when in use.

I'm really gonna suspect I might have to replace it.

Titor fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Sep 8, 2014

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