[vox-tech] hard drive recovery

[Rod Roark]

Well the question is whether you can even position the drive=20
head.  Very likely the platter is fine, but you may not be
able to access it without opening things up and fixing or
replacing the arm.

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

On Monday 29 July 2002 01:28 pm, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> rod,
>
> even if there's a hard carsh on, say, partition 2, would that obviate
> the possibility of recovery from all other partitions as well?
>
> pete
>
> begin Rod Roark <rod@sunsetsystems.com>
>
> > I expect that if the drive sounds like that, you won't be
> > 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
> > > gives 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 u=
se
> > > dd to read in raw partion data?  i'm thinking something along the l=
ines
> > > 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 th=
ere
> > > 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 drive=
s
> > > have?
> > >
> > > pete