{"id":2265,"date":"2012-06-12T08:18:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T13:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2012-06-12T10:06:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:06:03","slug":"recovery-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=2265","title":{"rendered":"Recovery Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n

I had a 250 GB hard drive connected to my router via a USB port. It served me well as a place to store backups outside of any internal computer drive. It was always there and didn\u2019t need a computer or another server to be running 24\/7. It used the router\/switch to do that.<\/p>\n

About two weeks ago my home network must have taken another hit from one of the many electrical storms here in Texas. I posted a blog entry<\/a> about losing my LAN port on my main computer mother board and my router\/switch forgetting my password. It also killed the USB interface in the external USB drive mentioned above. \u00a0Last night I determined it also killed the USB circuit in the router\/switch. It\u2019s dead at BOTH ends.<\/p>\n

That means I can no longer just plug a new USB drive into my old router\/switch. \u00a0If I want the function, I\u2019ll have to replace the router\/switch.<\/p>\n

A coworker at Schneider lent me a nifty rescue\/recovery device<\/a> for old, out of the case hard drives. It allows me to plug into almost any kind of bare hard drive and give it power and a USB2 interface. I was able to (as shown in the picture) just plug into my Linux box USB port and transfer over 63 GB of files to a safe place. Please excuse the rather grainy pictures as I shot them with my iPhone under poor lighting.<\/p>\n

The old drive when first started made a LOT of whining noise<\/a> so I was initially worried if I could recover the files. After about 30 minutes the drive got hot and the noise went away except for the expected head clicking sounds. I was able to fully extract and transfer all the files. I am not going to trust the drive again since all the start-up whining.<\/p>\n

I am pleased it wasn’t mission impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a 250 GB hard drive connected to my router via a USB port. It served me well as a place to store backups outside of any internal computer drive. It was always there and didn\u2019t need a computer or another server to be running 24\/7. It used the router\/switch to do that. About two weeks ago my home network must have taken another hit from one of the many electrical storms here in...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,82],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computersoftware","tag-computer","tag-lightning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}