exxel92 33 Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 Over a year ago, I bought an external drive off of ebay. I want to get it fixed, but there are fetish videos on there that I don't want other people to see. Do people look at personal files when you get drives fixed?? Link to comment
Gabby Jay 211 Posted February 17, 2018 Share Posted February 17, 2018 (edited) Yes, but most of them won't say anything if it's all legal. If you really don't want anyone to see them, you may have to just sacrifice the drive, or just take it somewhere you don't plan on visiting again. (btw what's wrong with it?) Edited February 17, 2018 by SodaPopinski (see edit history) Link to comment
Guest Soma-Matic Posted February 18, 2018 Share Posted February 18, 2018 Buy a Sata to IDE cord, it's likely the SATA controller broke.... I did it for a friend of mine. If you are in the states, and don't mind paying 50 dollars + shipping, we could even arrange it through ebay so you have buyer protectio, I could fix it if you want just pm. I honestly don't care I don't need to look at the data to get it running again. If the plates or needle are broke I can't repair it and most small shops can't, and data recovery starts going into the hundreds at that point. If you want me to walk you through install a sata controller I can do that for free here. Link to comment
Tailsuser 120 Posted March 8, 2018 Share Posted March 8, 2018 Well, I know this does not help anymore. But, next time, just get a second drive and do a backup, that's the easier way saving data. Maybe you want to use snapshots, here is a tut https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/225730/how-to-take-snapshot-of-an-ext4-filesystem#225744 At least that should work if you do this on a internal HDD, we got virtual file systems on Linux, might also just work on the same disk, you might want to find out more about this. Deja dup is also very good. Link to comment
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