I bought a hard drive from walmart and it came with internal

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some of the data that was readible

>>57928694
how can you not copy files
if you can open you can copy

try and mount it on a GNU/Linux live USB or something. I've found Linux can sometimes read off the drive when Windows refuses to.

>>57928761
times out, hard drive is failing

can open some files but not others

>>57928763
just shows up as unallocated disk space on my laptop running ubuntu (in gparted)

>>57928792
Maybe you don't have support for NTFS?
Try unmounting then mounting it from terminal?
I'm not sure if it'd make a difference but I'd try that.

>>57928694
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>>57928810
Stop plugging and unplugging it. Run a recovery program like recuva or kroll ontrack

>>57928810
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 63 1953520064 1953520002 931.5G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ntfs
ntfs-3g: Failed to access volume '/dev/sdb1': No such file or directory

Make a disk image with dd first so you can always work from that

>>57928694
TAKE AN IMAGE OF THE DRIVE IMMEDIATELY. After that, unplug the drive and start working on a copy of the image(the original image should be kept read-only). If possible, use a tool which will try to recover data from bad sectors.

post juicy Kellogg's secrets

Send this to Wikileaks.

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Make an image of the drive.

Sell to their competitors. Crop out information to make it look important. Don't ask for a lot. Couple of thousand.

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>>57928865
Ok

>>57928896
Ok

>>57928947
explosive stuff

>>57928761
>how do filesystems work

No. Just because you can access metadata (and listing directory contents etc. is just that) doesn't anywhere mean that the disk area where the actual data is stored is readable.

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>>57928943
This is fucking great.
Sending it into the PLA.

>>57928859
This. Putting strain to a failing drive should be avoided as much as possible, just read off it once sequentially.

On the other hand, I don't quite get how OP
>bought a drive at walmart
>there's a ton of some company's documents on it
>the drive is failing

Were you supposed to get a new drive? Haven't heard of walmart selling refurbs, and even if, then if it's failing you should return it as you're kinda screwed otherwise.

>>57929038
It was supposed to be a 5TB drive. The chassis says 5TB and whatnot, so the previous owner must have swapped it out and returned it with the old 1TB in it.

Yeah I'm gonna go back and try to return it.

Dump of 60MB that I was able to retrieve:
https://mega.nz/#!9kd2iBIC!ltEQ6HgruykHR1KUafwgapZzdiXZGepFUlWjnEOwgDs

>>57928826
Kroll Ontrack is a program? Because from what I've heard it's a company (actually a subsidiary of Kroll) which specializes in professional data forensics and recovery.

>>57929050
>It was supposed to be a 5TB drive. The chassis says 5TB and whatnot, so the previous owner must have swapped it out and returned it with the old 1TB in it.
tfw I do this all of the time

>that corporate MS office chaos

the horror

>>57928694
.rdp
oh shit

>>57929055
https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/9962414/Ontrack_EasyRecovery_Enterprise_11.1.0.0_[Multi]_[Portable]

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Looks like crap, not surprised that it's failing

Going to try and dd it and then see what might be deleted

Don't know if it can dd 1TB successfully tho

>>57929050
Oh, so it's an external HDD in an enclosure. Still weird as fuck though.

>some smartfuck returns a failing 1TB drive in lieu of a supposed 5TB one
>except there's plenty of some company's documents on still on it
>walmart never actually checks the drive staying oblivious to both of the above
>walmart sells this returned drive to OP, presumably as a new one

>>57929050
>Yeah I'm gonna go back and try to return it.

You do realize that if the figure out now that it's not a 5TB drive then it will be you who's accused of trying to cheat them?

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>>57929107
Yeah, I guess Kellogg's has to save money somewhere. Not a bad deal tho, 5TB for $70.

>>57929074
Yea, remote desktop session settings. Probably doesn't keep the password though, and may be for use inside LAN only.

>>57929091
Can you read the HDD's smart data and post a screenshot? Wonder what is failing exactly.

>>57929118
Damn that's pretty shitty.

>>57928694
Isn't EE a UK Telco? I'm surprised why it has documents from it, anyways have you tried using a recovery program to fix it? There's a lot of shitty programs on the net ofc, but I did manage to find one the fixed the documents of a work drive a few years back, can't remember the name though.

>>57929175
Probably electrical engineer

>>57929091
you bought this from walmart?

>>57929202
Yes

>>57929118
>5TB for $70.
woah woah woah
wait a second
where is this deal?

>>57929211
They sell used PC parts?

>>57929233
It was sold as new

It was in shrink wrap but the seal was broken and I didn't notice until I got home

>>57929233
he's saying that
>somebody bought a 5tb external drive
>took out the drive inside of it
>put a shitty old used drive back in
>returned it to Walmart
in other words, somebody committed a crime

>>57929113
They will always accept the return and believe the customer
source: I work for a small business

>>57929251
It's the kind of crime that hardly ever is punished, at least in my experience.

ddrescue isn't rescuing anything so might have to give up hope on finding any juicy deleted files

literally

>rescued: 0 B, errsize 1000 GB

>>57929346
Did you create a dd image first?

>>57929368
nope didn't work

>>57929375
You can stil access the disk, right?
If you can, ddrescue should work too. Fairly sure you're doing wrong.
Practice on a different disk first pls, you don't want to ruin this one.

>>57928694
Ggg

>>57929251
genius. Might have to try this.

>>57929397
On Windows, yes, some of it

On Linux, it doesn't seem to be able to read anything off of it even at a hardware level

>>57929426
Doesn't make sense. Are you using some shitty USB adapter or something?

Also, with a full image, you might photorec for more data. Maybe some working RDP files.

>>57929479
Nope, took it out of its case and plugged it straight in via SATA.

>>57929488
Reading the wrong device, maybe? Is this your first time doing this?

>>57929523
No/no, it shows it in fdisk -l but trying ddrescue from /dev/sda doesn't rescue anything

>>57929420
people get away with this and a lot more with Amazon
>buy designer sunglasses for $300
>take the case and glasses from the box
>replace with a knockoff from China purchased for $3
>send back and get full refund

Amazon doesn't inspect the product at all
basically all they do is verify that the weight of the package is accurate within like 25% and put it back on the shelf

on top of that, you can buy from a 3rd party seller off of Amazon
so Amazon can't even tell if you the consumer is the criminal or if the seller who sent you the item is selling fakes

>Blank food safety incident.doc
Whats this?

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>>57929550
Also can't mount sda1

>>57929550
And dd? What's the output there?

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>>57929558
I got a friend who always gets ripped off on ebay and amazon, when i tell him shit looks fake like some raybans he goes on about how fake shit is only allowed on aliexpress and how the seller explains on his product page how to spot fakes and how the stuff he sells isn't fake.
The world is full of dumb goyim.

>>57929747
You're telling me that happened more than once?

>>57929836
With raybans yeah, it happens a lot. Also with expensive clothes brands. People believe whatever the seller tells them as long as it's not a chink.

OP ded?

>>57930017
Returned it to Walmart

Went to another store that said it had 3 in stock but they had none

Kind of a bummer

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>>57928909
fucking Gayflor

JAMAL

>>57930063
fucking idiot

>>57930096
Two 5TB drives for $140 isn't that bad desu

Would have preferred buying 3 more but oh well

>>57930063
Think of all the corporate secrets you could have found, anon.

>>57930215
this
holy shit i mad

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>>57930215
sucks that it was found by some fag that cant use computers

Post what store you returned it to.