[vox-tech] hard drive recovery

[Rod Roark]

I expect that if the drive sounds like that, you won't be=20
able to read it at all -- in which case a data recovery
service is probably the only option.

I think I'll go do some backups now....

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

On Monday 29 July 2002 01:04 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> hola,
>
> a friend (who only uses windows) had a laptop hard drive fail.  it give=
s
> the "click click of death" that you hear when a drive fails.
>
> he asked about the possibility of recovering some unbacked up data.
>
> would i be able to hook his laptop computer up to a linux box and use d=
d
> to read in raw partion data?  i'm thinking something along the lines of=
:
>
> dd if=3D/dev/hdd1 of=3D./firstpartition
> dd if=3D/dev/hdd2 of=3D./secondpartition
>
> that would be my knee-jerk response.  i've done some web searching, but
> need to do more.  i know the dd works at a filesystem level.  is there =
a
> lower level tool that would allow me to read up to where the hard crash
> occured and perhaps after this point?
>
> has anyone "been here" before?  what did you do?
>
> do laptop IDE drives have the same interface that desktop IDE drives
> have?
>
> pete