I was transferring some files to a portable drive and thunar crashed and now my 4tb drive is unrecognized. I've had a similar problem before which was resolved by using a partition recovery tool, but I've tried that plus many others and none are able to fix it, most cant even detect it.
CHKDSK says: cannot open volume for direct access, even in safe mode
gparted 'partition' 'check' fails with this log but it does recognize the drive
testdisk finds the drive and a partition but freezes on selection of 'quick search'
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdc: 3.65 TiB, 4000752599040 bytes, 7813969920 sectorsDisk model: Elements 25A1Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytesSector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytesI/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytesDisklabel type: gptDisk identifier: 13DA21F1-8582-4328-A827-56811CD1B8F7Device Start End Sectors Size Type/dev/sdc1 2048 7813967871 7813965824 3.7T Microsoft basic data
lsblk
sdc 8:32 0 3.7T 0 disk
└─sdc1 8:33 0 3.7T 0 part
testdisk -lu
Disk /dev/sdc - 4000 GB / 3725 GiB - CHS 486397 255 63
Sector size:512
Model: WD Elements 25A1, FW:1014
I tried ntfsfix /dev/sdb1 which reported a fix, but it had no noticeable effect.
I think the data is still there, the drives still responsive and being detected, but restoring the partition is proving very difficult.
Does anyone have any idea what I could try? Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
*EDIT:
smartctl reads the device and gives this output
also sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb gives
Disk /dev/sdb: 3.65 TiB, 4000752599040 bytes, 7813969920 sectors
Disk model: Elements 25A1
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 13DA21F1-8582-4328-A827-56811CD1B8F7
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sdb1 2048 7813967871 7813965824 3.7T Microsoft basic data
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