Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 10:14:26 +0000 From: Carmel NY <carmel_ny@outlook.com> To: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to recover data from dead hard drive. Message-ID: <BN6PR2001MB1730D947FADA3A9DC9A370A480490@BN6PR2001MB1730.namprd20.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <72772933-C642-43DB-AFD6-6B5D40EEF39E@fjl.co.uk> References: <59DBA387.4050108@gmail.com> <20171009191435.145c9dd2.freebsd@edvax.de> <72772933-C642-43DB-AFD6-6B5D40EEF39E@fjl.co.uk>
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On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 12:03:11 +0100, Frank Leonhardt (m) stated: >Good list that. ddrescue is, IME, the place to start. Or have I confused i= t >with dd_rescue again :-) > >But what do you mean by dead? If its not spinning or not recognized by the >system as existing, you'll get nowhere with software. I transplant the >platters to a new IDENTICAL drive mechanism and work from that. You can by= an >identical drive from companies who stock samples them "just in case". >Unsurprisingly, they're not cheap. And transferring platters is not easy. > >I also have some expensive licensed software for recovering incomplete fil= e >systems, and charge Windows users like a wounded rhinoceros when they need >their data back. Years ago, I used "Spinrite" to recover a damaged drive. It worked better t= han anything else on the market, at least for me, at the time. I don't think it has been maintained in over a decade though. Personally, I fail to understand why anyone with any "mission critical" system would not be using some form of RAID. It doesn't make any sense to m= e. Even my Laptop is configured to automatically back up data to a cloud servi= ce. Even if the drive went south, I could restore all of my data. --=20 Carmel
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