<div dir="ltr"><div>I have a 1T <span class="" id=":1g5.1" tabindex="-1">Seagate</span> Barracuda hard drive that is clicking pretty bad and I'm considering sending it to <span class="" id=":1g5.2" tabindex="-1">Seagate</span> for data recovery. </div><div><br></div><div>If they can restore at least 75% of the drive, the price is $400 something dollars. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The drive is not detected by any BIOS, so getting any info off the drive directly isn't an option. <br></div><div><br></div><div>So I'm trying to figure out another way to get the size of the data on disk, to verify what 75% would be. </div><div><br></div><div>At some point, this 1T <span class="" id=":1g5.3" tabindex="-1">Seagate</span> drive was mounted (ext4 pretty sure) to two different <span class="" id=":1g5.4" tabindex="-1">Ubuntu</span> installations (I think both are 14.04) and I have the hard drive for each installation.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm wondering if a listing of the files on this 1T drive might be cached somewhere on the hard drives for the two different <span class="" id=":1g5.5" tabindex="-1">Ubuntu</span> installs it was mounted to ?</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps whenever <span class="" id=":1g5.6" tabindex="-1">Ubuntu</span> mounts a new file system, it indexes the contents of the file system and puts that info in a file here: <path to a file somewhere in the OS>.</div><div><br></div><div>Or maybe <span class="" id=":1g5.7" tabindex="-1">mountd</span> logs the stats of newly mounted file systems ?</div><div><br></div><div>Anything like this that would be persistent enough for me to recover from the two <span class="" id=":1g5.8" tabindex="-1">Ubuntu</span> installations ? </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Regards, </div><div><br></div>------------------------------------<br>Calvin Pryor<br><a href="mailto:calvinpryor@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span class="" id=":1g5.9" tabindex="-1">calvinpryor</span>@gmail.com</a><br>-------------------------------------<br></div></div></div>
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