it's a bit similar to the recent thread:
http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubb..._7_#Post3745591
but it's also different. the drive is invisible to windows, even if booted from CD. the bootable HD tools see the drive and SMART and all clusters check out fine. but the WD diagnostic software reports uncorrectable sectors (don't know how many) on the long scan, basically a fail.
but at the advice of the wiki on corrupted hard drives, i booted linux and the drive and all the files are there. i'm manually copying some recent files that are newer than the last whole drive backup.
is this a partition table corruption?
http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubb..._7_#Post3745591
but it's also different. the drive is invisible to windows, even if booted from CD. the bootable HD tools see the drive and SMART and all clusters check out fine. but the WD diagnostic software reports uncorrectable sectors (don't know how many) on the long scan, basically a fail.
but at the advice of the wiki on corrupted hard drives, i booted linux and the drive and all the files are there. i'm manually copying some recent files that are newer than the last whole drive backup.
is this a partition table corruption?