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4 minutes ago, ChrisCross said:

next time buy a normal hdd and an enclosure... 

Yeah, i just bought normal HDD and separate HDD enclosure, so no more brand External drives. xD 

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Hello, so, i have a problem with a Hitachi touro desk pro 4Tb external disk drive. It's kinda odd problem, so, the hard drive has bad SMART status, with reallocated sectors, so i want to save all the files on another drive, but the disk when extracted from the external HDD enclosure and connected straight to the sata, does not see the files, the partition is displayed as unallocated on linux mint,knopix,parted magic, and on windows as RAW partition table, which means the same thing, and the part of partition which is empty shows up normal, but the weird thing is that when i connect the drive via usb, the partition shows up as NTFS and all the files are there on knopix, mint, parted, windows. But saving files via usb would be super slow + not advisable from data recovery perspective. So the question is, what could cause this, and how to fix it? It's ether some configuration on the HDD that is configured to work with usb, because i could format the drive through the Sata, just not see the files. 

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8 minutes ago, rich1187 said:

 

i would just get the files via usb and leave the sinking ship as fast as possible :D

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1 minute ago, ChrisCross said:

i would just get thr files via usb and leave the sinking ship as fast as possiblr :D

Yeah, but the possibility of it breaking during the transferring via usb, is much higher, as there is 3,4Tb of data and the transfer rates via usb is much slower, than sata. But yeah, probably the drive is formatted that way and nothing i can do. I will probably just do it through the usb, just needed to clarify if there is some possibilities. 

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1 minute ago, rich1187 said:

 

next time buy a normal hdd and an enclosure... 

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4 hours ago, rich1187 said:

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Hey there rich1187 :)

 

Have in mind that some enclosures feature hardware encryption or other features that prevent the HDD inside to be read outside of the enclosure. I'd suggest checking what features doe your external drive have and see what's the reason why the drive isn't read outside of the enclosure. 
What is the model of the drive?

 

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