[ale] Hard Drive data recovery services?

[Pete Hardie]

Just a follow-up on my HDD recovery saga

I was able to use ddrescue and a borrowed USB-SATA cable to access the
drive, and recovered all but 17M of 500G, if I understand the output of
ddrescue.  I'm in the process of dropping the recovered photos, etc to DVD
so that we have real backup copies, and my wife can restore those that she
wants on her machine at her leisure.

Thanks again for all the pointers and advice - it looks like I'm able to
get most if not all of what we thought was lost.



Pete Hardie
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On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Ken Cochran <kwc at theworld.com> wrote:

> In this (my) particular case it was good data on the media but
> a complete no-spin & the filesystems were (Free)BSD.  Either
> the spindle motor or its associated electronics had failed.
> I was not exactly comfortable with the idea of recovering
> *that* myself...  -kc
>
> > Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 11:11:02 -0400
> > From: Ted Wood <wood at gatech.edu>
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Hard Drive data recovery services?
> >
> > On 05/23/2013 10:44 AM, Ken Cochran wrote:
> > > Heard good things of them too (Moulton).
> > > (Excellent) personal experience with Cherry, In Marietta.
> > > Evidently we're fortunate to have some *good* local choices.
> > >
> > > -kc
> > >
> > >> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 10:20:38 -0400
> > >> From: Mike Ivey <miketech.jr at gmail.com>
> > >> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> > >> Subject: Re: [ale] Hard Drive data recovery services?
> > >>
> > >> I have heard good things about Scott Moulton's myharddrivedied.com.
> I have
> > >> not used him personally, but I have been to a few of his talks. This
> guy
> > >> really knows his stuff.
> > >>
> > >> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> ISTR that the topic of data recovery has come up before on the list.
>  Does
> > >>> anyone have recommendations for good places to get data recovered
> off a
> > >>> laptop drive?  The wife's laptop appears to have crapped out and she
> did
> > >>> not have the latest set of photos backed up
> > >>>
> > >>> TIA,
> > >>>
> > >>> Pete Hardie
> > >>> --------
> > >>> Better Living Through Bitmaps
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> > I'll throw another +1 in for myhaddrivedied.com. Scott is a great guy
> > and he really knows his stuff. If he can't recover it, chances are it's
> > not going to be recoverable.
> >
> > On a side note (and some may call me crazy) I've had good luck using
> > SpinRite (yes, the SpinRite from Steve Gibson of Security Now! fame).
> > Say what you will but I've used it on several occasions and had it get a
> > disk working well enough to read the data off to another medium. Scott
> > will tell you it's a waste of money and it might cause more harm than
> > good (in some cases this may be true) but I've had luck with it so I
> > thought it was worth a mention.
> >
> > </$0.02>
> >
> > --
> > Ted Wood <wood at gatech.edu>
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