Hey /g/ , do you think you would be able to help me out with a broken HDD?
I have this old Samsung 1TB HDD thats been broken for like 6 years now. I think i smashed my PC with a fist back in the day and it damaged the disk. Now its making clicking noises (will upload a sound clip if anyone requests)
So i can hook it up, but it appears as pic related in Disk Management and i cannot initialize it, it just spits some errors.
Anything i can do to salvage this?
Are you trying to use a broken HDD? You might as well write your files to /dev/null.
Stop trying to fix this. Shutdown and disconnecr it right now before yoi totally fuck it. You might still be able to get your data off it with ddrescue or something similar.
Go buy a new HDD and stop using this one...