[nylug-talk] Dead hard drive

[kiryl]

BTW: i have been in situations that dd_rescue worked for 3-4 days on a 
single drive with 200Gb capacity!!

so don't stop it if it's started :)

Peter Jay Salzman wrote:

>Thanks, everyone.
>
>Looks like I have a lot of avenues to pursue.   When I'm done, I'll post a
>nice summary of my adventures in file recovery to the list for others in the
>future.
>
>Pete
>
>
>
>On Fri 14 Jul 06,  1:10 PM, kiryl <administrator at bsolution.net> said:
>  
>
>>I have managed to find a way to recover a disks with the following:
>>
>>1. let the disk rest for a little bit
>>2. use dd_rescue from this distribution  
>>http://www.inside-security.de/applicationlist.html
>>3.  if it's a windows hdd and you partition f***ed use this tool 
>>http://www.file-recovery.net/ (yes you have to pay lie $40) but it will 
>>scan the entire disk you have created in step  2 and find *a lot* of files
>>4. i'm still looking for a tool that can do that on linux partitions.
>>
>>Joseph M. Gaffney wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>On Wednesday 12 July 2006 21:45, Michael Bacarella wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:18:07PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>But I'd like to get a 2nd opinion before I admit I couldn't do
>>>>>something with Linux that he could do with Windows.  Rubs me the wrong
>>>>>way.
>>>>>    
>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>What rubs me the wrong way is someone trying to get a highly specialized
>>>>computer service that can run thousands of dollars per recovery done
>>>>for free by playing on people's OS insecurities.
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>What rubs me the wrong way is when people just don't get it.  Purchasing a 
>>>program for windows vs. using open source tools, NOT sending out a drive 
>>>with some pics on it to a data recovery service costing $1500 for a review 
>>>of the drive within 24hrs, who will use a similar set of tools FIRST.
>>>
>>>I just did this myself the other day for my roommate.  Of course, his 
>>>problem was NTFS, and Windows no longer booted.  Slax, my usb adapted 30GB 
>>>notebook drive, and a few moments explaining what I was doing later, and 
>>>his pics were recovered.  Do you think I should have sent out the drive 
>>>for that?
>>>
>>>Relax yourself.
>>>
>>>-Joseph M. Gaffney
>>>aka CuCullin
>>>      
>>>
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