history of this HD: this drive was used as main drive for ACER laptop for only few days (as replacement drive). i think it was windows Vista. then i used it in HD inclosure without portion or format as external drive for my system. After many months, I had error with this HD when try to access see this link:
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/install-boot-login/467719-i-can-not-access-my-hard-drive-external.html
I did find lately that the inclosure was not working (tested using another drive ).
Now i installed the external drive as secondary drive for my PC and when i access this drive with Dolphin this message shows up:
An error occurred while accessing ‘ACER’, the system responded: The requested operation has failed.: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 13: $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0).
Failed to mount ‘/dev/sdb1’: Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it’s a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the ‘dmraid’ documentation
for more details.
when i use (via terminal ) smartctl command this the output:
linux-c5yq:/home/ # smartctl -i /dev/sdb1
smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [i686-linux-3.1.0-1.2-default] (SUSE RPM)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, smartmontools
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Scorpio Blue Serial ATA
Device Model: WDC WD3200BEVT-00ZCT0
Serial Number: WD-WXH0A9976215
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 2038a544e
Firmware Version: 11.01A11
User Capacity: 320,072,933,376 bytes [320 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Thu Dec 1 15:58:04 2011 AST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
when i use sfdisk command this the output:
linux-c5yq:/home/ # sfdisk -l -x
Disk /dev/sdb: 38913 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 0+ 38913- 38914- 312568832 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sdb4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
please help, how can i recover my data.?
i am using Opensuse 12.1 KDE