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HardDisk is recognized but dd copies nothing

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Mar 15, 20261044 views
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Problem

I've got an old harddrive (Seagate, 200MB) here which just failed, and I wanted to get an image from it with dd. The hd is recognized as device (f.e. ) but dd does not copy anything from it. Additionally to it I can't select it in parted (just does nothing, no error). I already tried to cat it ( ),…

Error Output

dd if=/dev/sdb of=/mnt/temp.dat
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes copied, 2.05 s, 0.0 MB/s

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Fix for: HardDisk is recognized but dd copies nothing

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I know sounds bizarre, but apparently placing the drive in a freezer and cooling it down (sometimes) fixes it for long enough to pull the data off it, until it warms up at least. Consider this a last resort might work if it's a platter related issue…

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