On 16 July 2015 at 13:52, William Park <opengeometry@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. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com