Hi there,
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Originally Posted by dmchess
I have a some usb hard disks I would like to repair. I think they have all damage to their fat table and I am not very comfortable with the process.
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are you going to repair the USB HDDs (which means hardware) or the filesystem on them (which would be a software issue)?
The latter would be easy: Just re-format them, and you're done.
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Originally Posted by dmchess
The terra-byte drive (Highest repair priority)
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"Tera", not "terra". It has nothing to do with Earth (latin "terra").
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Originally Posted by dmchess
when I plug it in to my Fedora Box, I get the following output (It reppeats many times) in /var/log/messages:
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May 16 09:05:36 draco kernel: [126465.105051] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 54 using ehci_hcd
May 16 09:05:36 draco kernel: [126465.168267] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
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That looks bad - obviously you really have a hardware problem here: Your USB host controller sees that there's a new device connected, but can't identify it. Very probably, the USB/SATA bridge chip inside the external enclosure is half-dead.
In that case you have a fair chance of continuing to use the HDD: Just get yourself another USB/SATA enclosure (should be available at any computer store, costs about the same as an up-to-date DVD movie), and swap the HDD into the new one.
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