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thanks mr meowski for the advice i will check that the warranty is still on before pulling it apart maybe segate will just send him a new one? are they helpfully at all? not mine to pull apart. i am not rich too afford such high end bit of kit. On 22 May 2016 at 21:10, mr meowski <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 22/05/16 14:45, Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint wrote: >> attempt 1 on old toshiba laptop (dual core, 1gb of memory very slow prob usb1) >> >> i am guessing having probs cos my laptop has not got usb 3 on it i am >> too poor to afford anything that fancy. >> >> external hard drive usb 3 - segate backup plus - pn 1k9apv-500 4tb.the >> light comes on and in link is the stuff from dmesg. >> >> >> http://pastebin.com/DEjck36H >> >> attemp 2 - on new toshiba satellite c50(usb3) >> >> i have now booted up the toshiba c50 laptop with usb pen with linux on it >> >> getting these results on that machine which has usb3 on it >> >> >> http://pastebin.com/bLHdYwr7 >> >> >> lli >> any ideas what i can do. >> > > "USB error 110" on the first machine means that the port/hub couldn't > provide enough power: > > http://www.noah.org/wiki/USB_error_-110_in_dmesg_log > > Your Seagate/Samsung unit is basically a piece of crap I'm afraid - a > cheap 5400rpm disk with a half-baked SATA3 instruction set. These tiny > little drives are very prone to thermal overload if running over long > periods (they're barely ok if you use them as backup drives - plug in > and use briefly, take out and leave for a week) so the manufacturers try > to work around it by setting the disk head parking parameters quite > aggressively, leading to a phenomenon known to sysadmins as disks > "parking to death". I've torn apart a few of these and countless even > more hateful WD "MyBooks" that have inexplicably died after very short > lives. > > Unfortunately it's difficult to be sure what drive is tucked away inside > that nasty little case, and what interface it has - sometimes they don't > have a standard SATA connector. If you're lucky, you can tear the unit > apart - carefully - and extract the disk, then connect it as per normal > via a USB > SATA write-blocking adaptor or just plug it directly into a > PC. If it has one of those dodgy non-standard SATA connectors, you're > out of luck short of getting a replacement case from Ebay or wherever. > > Whatever you do, check the warranty with your friend first! > > So, get the disk out, connect it via SATA/USB to a Linux box and go from > there. It's going to be GPT labelled (because of it's size) and coming > from a Windows/console world presumably formatted as either NTFS or > (ex)FAT. If gparted can read the disk label and at least show you a > partition table you'll probably be golden, otherwise it's Testdisk for > you and a lot of patience. > > Good luck. > > Cheers > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq