Hello everyone. I have a My Book Live 2 TB. It was working perfectly for a year. I moved the physical location of the disk. From the office to my house and as it was not recognized by the network, I did a reset (4 seconds pushing the reset button), after that, it booted with blue light and then red light. Network lights were blinking in a random way. It never came back to life… at least via network.
After reading many posts, I decided to open the disk enclosure and pulled the disk out, I connected it using a SATA/USB cable to my Windows 7 laptop.
I have a GParted 6.7 rescue CD and booted the laptop with it. I never tried the Linux terminal and commands, so it is a little difficult to me until I understand how Linux commands and terminal works)
The disk utility that came with the Hiren CD showed no errors on the drive. Good health, the self tests did not find anything wrong.
I ran testdisk 6.12 and this is what showed up:
TestDisk 6.12, Data Recovery Utility, May 2011
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 60563 128 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
* Linux 16 0 1 77 127 63 499968
P Linux 78 0 1 139 127 63 499968
P Linux RAID 136347750 18 3 77 127 63 3999632 [md1]
L Linux RAID 136347812 18 3 139 127 63 3999632 [md1]
Structure: Ok. Use Up/Down Arrow keys to select partition.
Use Left/Right Arrow keys to CHANGE partition characteristics:
*=Primary bootable P=Primary L=Logical E=Extended D=Deleted
Keys A: add partition, L: load backup, T: change type,
Enter: to continue
md 0.90.0 Raid 1: devices 0(8,1) 1(8,2)*, 16 GB / 15 GiB
After hitting ENTER
Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 * Linux 16 0 1 77 127 63 499968
2 P Linux 78 0 1 139 127 63 499968
3 E extended LBA 78 0 1 60562 127 63 487751040
4 P Linux RAID 136347750 18 3 77 127 63 3999632 [md1]
5 L Linux RAID 136347812 18 3 139 127 63 3999632 [md1]
After hitting the Write Option (Y)
Partition: Write error
I went to the main menu, and run Analyse again
TestDisk 6.12, Data Recovery Utility, May 2011
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 60563 128 63
Current partition structure:
Partition Start End Size in sectors
1 * Linux 16 0 1 77 127 63 499968
2 P Linux 78 0 1 139 127 63 499968
3 E extended LBA 78 0 1 60562 127 63 487751040
Invalid RAID superblock
4 P Linux RAID 532610 4 4 533106 2 17 3999632
4 P Linux RAID 532610 4 4 533106 2 17 3999632
Bad sector count.
Space conflict between the following two partitions
2 P Linux 78 0 1 139 127 63 499968
3 E extended LBA 78 0 1 60562 127 63 487751040
The INVALID RAID SUPERBLOCK AND SPACE CONFLICT error are showing up now.
Note: I changed the heads count from 255 to 128 as suggested by Testdisk.
How can I manage to eliminate the space conflict?
How do I fix this?
I know the data is there, I really need those files, but I am not sure how to do it.
If I go to Advanced option, and hit the two linux partitions superblock data:
TestDisk 6.12, Data Recovery Utility, May 2011
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 60563 128 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
Linux 16 0 1 77 127 47 499952
superblock 0, blocksize=4096
superblock 32768, blocksize=4096
superblock 98304, blocksize=4096
superblock 163840, blocksize=4096
superblock 229376, blocksize=4096
superblock 294912, blocksize=4096
To repair the filesystem using alternate superblock, run
fsck.ext3 -p -b superblock -B blocksize device
TestDisk 6.12, Data Recovery Utility, May 2011
Disk /dev/sdb - 2000 GB / 1863 GiB - CHS 60563 128 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
Linux 78 0 1 139 127 47 499952
superblock 0, blocksize=4096
superblock 32768, blocksize=4096
superblock 98304, blocksize=4096
superblock 163840, blocksize=4096
superblock 229376, blocksize=4096
superblock 294912, blocksize=4096
To repair the filesystem using alternate superblock, run
fsck.ext3 -p -b superblock -B blocksize device
Thank you in advance!
