[GTALUG] Advice request

[Giles Orr]

On 16 July 2015 at 13:52, William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:57:49AM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote:
>> Greetings
>>
>> I have a large system with a fair number of resources which has just come
>> home from the hospital (computer) when I had a disk drive fail abruptly.
>>
>> 1.The tech tells me that the hard drive can be accessed. How do I do a low
>> level transfer to another hard drive?
>> (This would mean that I would have empty sectors but there is some
>> information that I would like to get.)
>
> 'dd' is the usual answer.  But, on a failing disk, it may really kill
> it.  I've been told that freezing your disk helps with recovery.

I've actually done that: ran the power into the freezer and the data
cable out and got the data I needed: the drive had been pretty much
deceased before it went in there.  It was surprisingly effective.  I
suppose it depends on the malady: I'd say it's worth a try.

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Giles
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