[ale] Has anybody used a flash disk recovery service?

[Scott Castaline]

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On 06/05/2012 04:13 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> lfd = remove during write
Ooooh, snap, crackle, pop!
>
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com
<mailto:mhw at wittsend.com>> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 11:13 -0400, david w. millians wrote:
>
> > Opinions needed on a flash drive repair service. We have a person who
> > did the laptop-flash-destruction maneuver.
>
> What means "laptop-flash-destruction maneuver"? No cutesy terms, what
> happened? Did they delete everything on it? Did it start giving them
> hard errors? Did they run it through a washer and drier? [Actually had
> that happen with a little pocket drive - the NAND Flash chip fell off
> the little PCB from the driver heat. Wasn't anything on it I needed to
> recover, fortunately.] What was the technically correct term for what
> they did and what they got?
>
> > Money is not a HUGE object. I
> > found:
> > http://www.recovermyflashdrive.com
> > and it looks like they could solve the actual issue.
>
> I've done recoveries on both rotating magnetic and solid state.
> Services can vary and results can vary depending on the nature of said
> "destruction".
>
> > Thanks,
> > David
>
> Mike
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