Drive Details: Seagate Exos 16TB (ST16000NM001G - 2KK103) HDD
Age: Installed May 2019
Usage: Should have around 5-6TB of data
Yesterday morning this drive was at 100 activity without any read/write actions taking place. I initially thought a process had locked up the drive, so I restarted the machine. When that did nothing, I performed a CHKDSK and began a virus scan and defrag. Both of them froze, probably because the drive was already at 100% activity. This was when I remembered SpinRite from all the SecurityNow podcasts and decided that I should give it a try. I figured SpinRite would easily fix the problem as the drive was online and 'accessible'. I installed SpinRite to a USB drive and set it for a level 2 scan on the Seagate. After an hour or two the SpinRite threw an error saying 'the hard drive is no longer responding to commands' at 0.0230% complete at sector 7,184,807. I attempted to run SpinRite again from this location, but am now presented with the errors shown in the pictures.
I have also booted the machine back into Windows 11 and the affected drive will show in disk management, but says its not initialized. An Ubuntu live disk says nearly the same thing with 'cannot read superblock'.
How do I get past this error and get SpinRite to attempt to recover the data on this drive?
I appreicate your time and help.
Dan
Age: Installed May 2019
Usage: Should have around 5-6TB of data
Yesterday morning this drive was at 100 activity without any read/write actions taking place. I initially thought a process had locked up the drive, so I restarted the machine. When that did nothing, I performed a CHKDSK and began a virus scan and defrag. Both of them froze, probably because the drive was already at 100% activity. This was when I remembered SpinRite from all the SecurityNow podcasts and decided that I should give it a try. I figured SpinRite would easily fix the problem as the drive was online and 'accessible'. I installed SpinRite to a USB drive and set it for a level 2 scan on the Seagate. After an hour or two the SpinRite threw an error saying 'the hard drive is no longer responding to commands' at 0.0230% complete at sector 7,184,807. I attempted to run SpinRite again from this location, but am now presented with the errors shown in the pictures.
I have also booted the machine back into Windows 11 and the affected drive will show in disk management, but says its not initialized. An Ubuntu live disk says nearly the same thing with 'cannot read superblock'.
How do I get past this error and get SpinRite to attempt to recover the data on this drive?
I appreicate your time and help.
Dan
