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Fun science fact in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sigh :)

Fun science fact in c/science_memes@mander.xyz

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

You already have Diehard and Gremlins, be satisfied ;)

I spilled a little water on an external hard drive and now it doesnt recognize and in Disc Management its saying it needs to be initialized (MBR or GPT) in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yup, what I'd expect an expert to do.

I spilled a little water on an external hard drive and now it doesnt recognize and in Disc Management its saying it needs to be initialized (MBR or GPT) in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This. Reasonable odds that it's the drive controller that got fried, HDDs are fairly resistant, unfortunately the borked drive controller may have corrupted the GPT table, (unlikely the data unless the drive really is fried).

In some cases there's a backup GPT table at the end of the drive, but by now you're in the weeds and need to assess how much that data is worth to you, because you need to find an expert.

If it's not worth much there's a good chance you can just recreate a GPT table and reformat and scan for errors, at least you'll get a drive back.