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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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I fucked up Seagate 2TB Seagate USB drive (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi there, I connected perfectly healthy Seagate mini 2 TB USB drive to my Synology DS923+ NAS drive. I moved files back and forth and everything was fine and dandy until I just unplugged a drive and went to connect it to my iMac. Sure, NAS software said, next time unmount drive before unplugging it. But that was after the fact. Mac can't see it no matter what. In Disk utility it's there but can't be mounted, erased, formatted, read or written. What can I do? Will PC be better in connecting to that drive. As of now it acts bricked.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Depends on what you mean by 'bricked'.

I used to have a WD Elements drive that when I unplugged the USB before the power EVERY SINGLE time it would turn the drive* from 'NTFS' to 'RAW' format. I found a guide online with instructions to open the drive in this particular hex editor and change the code at a specific address depending on what the format was supposed to be ie NTFS. I forgot a couple more times but after fixing it for oh the 4th or 5th time I finally remembered to unplug the power before the USB cable lol... Fun times.

*I should clarify, it changed the notation in the MBR as to what the drive was formatted with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for advice, this exceeds my “expertise” level.