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Samsung HD out of Panasonic recorder not recognized in PC
Hi everyone,
I have an Panasonic DMR-EH60, the harddisk of which has been accidentally formatted. I have some pretty good clues as how I could retrieve the lost data, provided I can rip the data from the HDD. Please note I *know* the filesystem is likely not FAT, neither plain ext2/ext3, neither plain UDF. That's not the point at this stage. I simply can't access the bits (sectors if you want). The HDD is a Samsung HA200JC (PATA) and appears as a perfectly normal commercial one for PC's. But no way it got detected in my BIOS or an external enclosure. Of course I messed around with all the usual 'slave'/'master'/'cable detect' settings, but no help. In my BIOS the model is recognized, but it doesn't get the geometry parameters, making it useless. Note also that the HDD is not defect : it works before and after in the Panasonic recorder. Desperately seeking for any clues. Jon |
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Samsung HD out of Panasonic recorder not recognized in PC
On 27 okt, 22:42, philo wrote:
On 10/26/2012 01:46 PM, wrote: Hi everyone, I have an Panasonic DMR-EH60, the harddisk of which has been accidentally formatted. I have some pretty good clues as how I could retrieve the lost data, provided I can rip the data from the HDD. Please note I *know* the filesystem is likely not FAT, neither plain ext2/ext3, neither plain UDF. That's not the point at this stage. I simply can't access the bits (sectors if you want). The HDD is a Samsung HA200JC (PATA) and appears as a perfectly normal commercial one for PC's. But no way it got detected in my BIOS or an external enclosure. Of course I messed around with all the usual 'slave'/'master'/'cable detect' settings, but no help. In my BIOS the model is recognized, but it doesn't get the geometry parameters, making it useless. Note also that the HDD is not defect : it works before and after in the Panasonic recorder. Desperately seeking for any clues. Jon I don't know what the problem is with your bios however a bios call is *not* needed for an auxiliary HD... the OS can detect it. Turn the HD off on that bios channel than if you use Linux see if gparted recognizes it or if you use Windows, disk management --https://www.createspace.com/3707686 Thanks 'Philo'. Of course Linux (and probably other OS'es) don't need the BIOS but for booting. I overlooked that simple fact. The disk is flawlessly recognized in Linux. (not the partition, but that I didn't expect at all). |
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Samsung HD out of Panasonic recorder not recognized in PC
On 10/30/2012 01:52 PM, wrote:
On 27 okt, 22:42, philo wrote: On 10/26/2012 01:46 PM, wrote: snip .. Note also that the HDD is not defect : it works before and after in the Panasonic recorder. Desperately seeking for any clues. Jon I don't know what the problem is with your bios however a bios call is *not* needed for an auxiliary HD... the OS can detect it. Turn the HD off on that bios channel than if you use Linux see if gparted recognizes it or if you use Windows, disk management --https://www.createspace.com/3707686 Thanks 'Philo'. Of course Linux (and probably other OS'es) don't need the BIOS but for booting. I overlooked that simple fact. The disk is flawlessly recognized in Linux. (not the partition, but that I didn't expect at all). That's good news. Did you use gparted . Hopefully it will tell you what type of partition it is. The next step of course would be to see if there is a Linux utility of some type to unformat or "recover" the drive. If OTOH gparted cannot recognize the partition type there is probably no way to recover the drive...unless perhaps the mfg of the device can help you -- https://www.createspace.com/3707686 |
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Samsung HD out of Panasonic recorder not recognized in PC
On Oct 31, 9:51*am, philo wrote:
On 10/30/2012 01:52 PM, wrote: On 27 okt, 22:42, philo wrote: On 10/26/2012 01:46 PM, wrote: snip . Note also that the HDD is not defect : it works before and after in the Panasonic recorder. Desperately seeking for any clues. Jon I don't know what the problem is with your bios however a bios call is *not* needed for an auxiliary HD... the OS can detect it. Turn the HD off on that bios channel than if you use Linux see if gparted recognizes it or if you use Windows, disk management --https://www.createspace.com/3707686 Thanks 'Philo'. Of course Linux (and probably other OS'es) don't need the BIOS but for booting. I overlooked that simple fact. The disk is flawlessly recognized in Linux. (not the partition, but that I didn't expect at all). That's good news. Did you use gparted . Hopefully it *will tell you what type of partition it is. The next step of course would be to see if there is a Linux utility of some type to unformat or "recover" the drive. If OTOH gparted cannot recognize the partition type there is probably no way to recover the drive...unless perhaps the mfg of the device can help you --https://www.createspace.com/3707686 The drive was simply recognized at booting. Just got to look into /var/ messages to find it's /dev/ name. Then I made an image of it (using dd) and on that image I applied following tool : http://sites.google.com/site/haliner/dvr-recover My drive was recovered for about 95% ! (the missing 5% is next to sure because the friend who got the 'formatting accident' didn't stop immediately using the drive). Once more thanks for your hint. I really was mentally blocked in the very old assumption BIOS must recognize it before anything else can be done. |
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Samsung HD out of Panasonic recorder not recognized in PC
On 11/01/2012 03:32 AM, wrote:
On Oct 31, 9:51 am, philo wrote: On 10/30/2012 01:52 PM, wrote: On 27 okt, 22:42, philo wrote: On 10/26/2012 01:46 PM, wrote: snip . Note also that the HDD is not defect : it works before and after in the Panasonic recorder. Desperately seeking for any clues. Jon I don't know what the problem is with your bios however a bios call is *not* needed for an auxiliary HD... the OS can detect it. Turn the HD off on that bios channel than if you use Linux see if gparted recognizes it or if you use Windows, disk management --https://www.createspace.com/3707686 Thanks 'Philo'. Of course Linux (and probably other OS'es) don't need the BIOS but for booting. I overlooked that simple fact. The disk is flawlessly recognized in Linux. (not the partition, but that I didn't expect at all). That's good news. Did you use gparted . Hopefully it will tell you what type of partition it is. The next step of course would be to see if there is a Linux utility of some type to unformat or "recover" the drive. If OTOH gparted cannot recognize the partition type there is probably no way to recover the drive...unless perhaps the mfg of the device can help you --https://www.createspace.com/3707686 The drive was simply recognized at booting. Just got to look into /var/ messages to find it's /dev/ name. Then I made an image of it (using dd) and on that image I applied following tool : http://sites.google.com/site/haliner/dvr-recover My drive was recovered for about 95% ! (the missing 5% is next to sure because the friend who got the 'formatting accident' didn't stop immediately using the drive). Once more thanks for your hint. I really was mentally blocked in the very old assumption BIOS must recognize it before anything else can be done. I am really glad you got the data back...I think you found an amazing bit of software. I do quite a bit of data recovery but never heard of that one... of course , thus far I have never worked on a DVR -- https://www.createspace.com/3707686 |
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