From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 13 03:50:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA02540 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 May 1998 03:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dove.peace.com.my (peace.com.my [202.184.153.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA02529 for ; Wed, 13 May 1998 03:50:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from panda@peace.com.my) Received: from lovebox (love.com.my [202.184.153.17]) by dove.peace.com.my (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA17303; Wed, 13 May 1998 18:31:24 +0800 (SGT) Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 18:31:24 +0800 (SGT) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19980513185338.00935ea0@peace.com.my> X-Sender: panda@peace.com.my X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) To: "Frank Pawlak" , chris@nirvana.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: chas Subject: Re: Last sector of partitions set to 0 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Recently had two disk die at exactly the same time ... which resulted in a few days' code lost. so i looking around. in the end, i rewrote my code but i had looked around and found some resources (seems to be only available in the US). average costs about US$200/hr... most give free quotes. Of course, if anyone can give you a personal reference, probably best to go with them. In case any of these are near you : Data Recovery Sources : ----------------------- http://www.datarecoverylabs.com/satisfaction.html http://www.datarec.com/index3.html .. free eval, http://www.1data.com/about.html http://www.excaliburdatarecovery.com/ http://www.toolsthatwork.com/cpr3_to.htm http://www.adatarecovery.com/data_recovery.htm http://mcrecovery.com/computer-crash-data-recovery.htm http://www.avercomputer.com/drivetronix/index.html http://www.recovery-uk.com/data.htm http://www.disktek.com/resources.html http://www.signweb.com/main/netnews/drivesavers.html - description of the process and need for a cleanroom. (i was planning on pulling the platters out and putting them into a similar HD until i read this .. yeah, i'm not too hot on hardware) good luck, chas >If this is mission critical data that you need to get back, there is an >organization in Eden Prarie Minnesota that can recover data off of damaged >disks. Their name is On Tracks. If you need more info on them let me >know, and I'll try to help. > >Good luck, >Frank > > >*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > >On 5/13/98, at 12:41 AM, Chris Conner wrote: > >>Hello, >> >>Recently one of our FreeBSD machines was compromised. We do know that the >>last sector of each partition was set to zero. Is it at all possible to >>recover the data on this drive, by somehow restoring the partition table? >>Even if we could just get it back temporarily, to recover some things, it >>would be a great help. We are almost sure of the exact partition table, >but >>we don't want to risk losing any data by messing around with anything, >>before consulting you guys. >> >>Any help would be greatly appreciated, >> >>Chris Conner >>chris@nirvana.net >>609-588-0078 >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message