[RLUG] data recovery

[Josh Scilacci]

You could try that method of freezing the harddrive and then trying to
recover data from it. I remember hearing that it did work, and after looking
here is what I was looking for
http://www.meetmyattorney.com/slink/mt-archives/000275.html It might work.
At the current moment it probably better then nothing. As Sebastian can also
confirm those companies that do data recovery cost way too damn much.

Josh




On 11/12/05, Sebastian Smith <ssmith at cse.unr.edu> wrote:
>
> Grant,
>
> Read/write failures are a bad sign. You have some degree of hardware
> failure on your hands. If the heads can't read what's stored on the
> platters you'll be SOL... unless the person your restoring for has a fat
> wallet.
>
> There are some data forensics toolkits, but if the hardware is borked they
> aren't going to help you.
>
> I'd suggest a new drive, and a backup scheme.
>
> - Sebastian
>
>
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Grant Kelly wrote:
>
> > My friend brought over a crashed windows box and wants me to see if i
> > can recover any files from the hard drives. I got them mounted in
> > knoppix and was able to copy some files to a network share, but after
> > a while, there are a lot of read/write errors and cp fails.
> >
> > Does anyone know a better way to recover files off of a failing hard
> > drive in knoppix (or any other live CD)?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Grant
> >
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