[RLUG] data recovery

[Brian Morris]

This may sound harsh but this (a catastrophic disk failure) is what it
usually takes to convince people to back up on a regular basis.  As has
been stated by others, I seriously doubt that you will be able to
recover anything else from the disk, but at least your friend will learn
this valuable lesson.

Brian

On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 16:14 -0800, Sebastian Smith wrote:

> Don't use the follwing technique:
> 
> http://www.bbspot.com/News/2004/05/bbspot_labs_ice_drive.html
> 
> *hehe*
> 
> - Sebastian
> 
> 
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Josh Scilacci wrote:
> 
> > 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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