{"id":257,"date":"2009-04-12T07:28:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-12T14:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2018-10-22T12:30:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T16:30:47","slug":"dead-drives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/12\/dead-drives\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead drives"},"content":{"rendered":"<abbr class=\"unapi-id\" title=\"\"><!-- &nbsp; --><\/abbr>\n<p>Two of my kids have three hard drives they would like brought back from the dead.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For my daughter, her dead drive apparently has every file she has ever collected, including quite a bit of school work, digital pictures and some music. My son&#8217;s two hard drives have a large number of music files ripped from old records or CD&#8217;s he no longer has.  Note to self:  back-up today.<\/p>\n<p>The first two drives I have looked at do make sounds, but I can&#8217;t see them from a Ubuntu or Mac OS machine, using a USB to IDE\/Sata connector.  These were cases of drives working one moment, and not working at all the next moment.  In a Mac, the Disk Utility does not see the drives.  In Ubuntu, Gparted does not recognize the drives either.  <\/p>\n<p>Next test for one, a 2.5 inch SATA drive, was the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bQUoS\">deep freeze trick<\/a>, to see if that works.  After a couple of hours in the deep freeze, the 2.5 inch SATA drive still DID NOT work. <\/p>\n<p>I was more luck with the third drive, which was a 500 gb Western Digitial My Book USB external drive in a black plastic case.  Apparently the USB interface was broken and shorting out.  When I removed the drive and tested it on another USB connection, it worked fine, and my son was very grateful to get back nearly 500 gigs of data.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of my kids have three hard drives they would like brought back from the dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}