<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'Courier New', courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Thanks Kenny/ Kelsoo & Martin,</div><div><br></div><div>The drive doesnae show up at all and I think something is damaged inside. Like everyone has said, I think connecting it to the power source will just cause more damage as the disc starts up. Oooof, I suppose the only solution is to wait & save more cash and take it to a company :-( </div><div><br></div><div>n</div><div style="font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Kenny Duffus <kenny@duffus.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion list for the Electron Club
<members@electronclub.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sat, 9 April, 2011 10:51:27<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ELECTRON] data recovery req!<br></font><br>On Saturday 09 April 2011 10:29:32 kelsoo wrote:<br>> kisho khwa wrote:<br>> > Hi folks,<br>> > <br>> > I have a wee offer for someone out there......<br>> > <br>> > One of DD's ext HD's had an accident and now doesnae work <chuggs/<br>> > bleeps/ nothing> and it was the one we backed up *everything* onto<br>> > <was just about to make a copy!>. Anyhoo, is there anyone on/off the<br>> > list who would be able to recover the data off it - I think it's about<br>> > 650GB worth on it - there would be some cash in it for you.....We<br>> > can't really afford any of the companies we've looked at so far....<br>> > <br>> <br>> Try test disk It's "free
software" as in freedom under the gpl. I've<br>> used it in the past on so called dead disks and it's only failed on one.<br>> <br>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDisk" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDisk</a><br>> <br>> <a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk" target="_blank">http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk</a><br>> <br><br>what you can do depends a lot on why the disk isn't working<br><br>if the disk is physically not spinning up/reading heads failure that is a lot <br>more complicated and not something you can solve with testdisk or similar <br>software<br><br>testdisk etc will only work if the disk still works but the filesystems is <br>corrupted or has unreadable sections of the disk (bad blocks)<br><br>if you can read any data off the disk the first and most important task is to <br>try to make a complete copy of the disk using something like dd, then you can <br>play with
testdisk on a copy of the dd image<br><br>-- <br><br> Kenny<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>members mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:members@electronclub.org" href="mailto:members@electronclub.org">members@electronclub.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members" target="_blank">http://lists.electronclub.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/members</a><br><br>Instructions for changing your mailing list settings:<br><a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/emailhowto.html" target="_blank">http://lists.electronclub.org/emailhowto.html</a><br><br>Archive for this list:<br><a href="http://lists.electronclub.org/pipermail/members/" target="_blank">http://lists.electronclub.org/pipermail/members/</a><br></div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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