WD20EARS 2TB drive failure - possible to recover filesystem?

FreeStream · 10 Jan 2011 at 23:09

Disktest gives this:

check_FAT: Unusual media descriptor (0xf0!=0xf8)
Warning: Incorrect number of heads/cylinder 16 (FAT) != 1 (HD)
Warning: Incorrect number of sectors per track 32 (FAT) != 1 (HD)
EFI System 40 409639 409600 [EFI]
Mac HFS 409640 3906766983 3906357344

What's wrong with it, how do I fix it?

All the files are there, I just can't get at them! :confused:

HighlandeR · 10 Jan 2011 at 23:23

id download the wd lifeguard tools, last time I had a wd 1tb that didnt get detected in windows and barely in bios I ran the bootable disc and it said something like " we detected a failing drive would u like to repair it so u can transfer files" ive never clicked so fast on the yes button

took 15hrs but got my files.... hours after it died, give it a go I guess nothing too loose.. either that or a good data recovery software like recovery my files/power data recovery maybe could work.

FreeStream · 10 Jan 2011 at 23:28

It's a mac disk, it's the time machine disk so not a huge problem if I need to wipe it to be honest, just rather try and rebuild the filesystem.

FreeStream · 11 Jan 2011 at 21:35

Well, that lasted well. Won't even write zero's to it now and took an hour just to format it.

Cream crackered it is. WD Advanced replacement on it's way.

Edit: What do people think about software RAID1?