[Wolves] trying to rescue external hard drive(my sister bf 3tb drive)

[Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint]

i have plugged into sister bf laptop and it here now i will try the
watch command , my sister said she tried to format it on her linux
desktop and it got half threw and stopped no more information then
that. She decide to let the expert look it at now. There is no power
supply it all comes off the usb port.

I do not have a power hub to test it out with i would guess it have to
be usb 3 at least.

i am keeping the hard drive so i have more time now.

i will take over to my friend robert who is a wizard at this hardware
stuff on linux..

there more info on pastebin - http://pastebin.com/DEjck36H and new one
on fancy fast laptop - http://pastebin.com/bLHdYwr7 - this morning i
did not know i had the fancy laptop here or would have started there
first with a live usb stick (its running linux mint 17 32bit off a 2gb
usb pen the toshiba sat c50)



On 22 May 2016 at 15:24, Claire Robinson via Wolves
<wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
> On 22/05/16 12:58, Mark Croft Redditch Linux Mint via Wolves wrote:
>> i am guessing having probs cos my laptop has not got usb 3 on it i am
>> too poor to afford anything that fancy.
>>
>> external hard drive usb 3 - segate backup plus - pn 1k9apv-500 4tb.the
>> light comes on and in link is the stuff from dmesg.
>>
>>
>> http://pastebin.com/DEjck36H
>>
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>
> I would say possibly not enough power is being supplied by your usb
> port. Use the power adapter, if it has one or a powered usb hub.
> Possibly just a dirty connection. Possibly it's been bounced or just
> dead. Possibly a mix of gpt & non-gpt disks in the system causing
> problems, but it does seem like a USB issue.
>
> Does the disk itself seem to start/stop/start/stop?
>
> You can watch dmesg output as you wiggle things.
>
> $ watch "dmesg | tail -n 20"
>
> Failing all else, perhaps use a live dvd/usb and plug it into their
> computer instead.
>
> Good luck!
> Claire
>
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