[ELECTRON] data recovery req!

[Kenny Duffus]

On Saturday 09 April 2011 10:29:32 kelsoo wrote:
> kisho khwa wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I have a wee offer for someone out there......
> > 
> > One of DD's ext HD's had an accident and now doesnae work <chuggs/
> > bleeps/ nothing> and it was the one we backed up *everything* onto
> > <was just about to make a copy!>. Anyhoo, is there anyone on/off the
> > list who would be able to recover the data off it - I think it's about
> > 650GB worth on it - there would be some cash in it for you.....We
> > can't really afford any of the companies we've looked at so far....
> > 
> 
> Try test disk It's "free software"  as in freedom under the gpl. I've
> used it in the past on so called dead disks and it's only failed on one.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDisk
> 
> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
> 

what you can do depends a lot on why the disk isn't working

if the disk is physically not spinning up/reading heads failure that is a lot 
more complicated and not something you can solve with testdisk or similar 
software

testdisk etc will only work if the disk still works but the filesystems is 
corrupted or has unreadable sections of the disk (bad blocks)

if you can read any data off the disk the first and most important task is to 
try to make a complete copy of the disk using something like dd, then you can 
play with testdisk on a copy of the dd image

-- 

	Kenny