Barely functioning HD, and seeking advice re: how to successfully record in blu-ray

[Kevin Cozens]

On 13-08-18 11:23 PM, Paul King wrote:
> The 1TB Seagate I had been using and trying to recover data from is
> being officially declared “pooched”.
>
> The Linux partitions on it which I thought were viable were not upon
> closer examination. Nearly all files and directories were missing below
> the root level of any partition I looked at.

Was the drive in such a bad shape that even using the alternate superblocks 
was not of any help in recovering data on the drives?

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