Re: [microsound] [ot] data recovery

[derek holzer <derek@xxxxxxx>]

Joakim Lindén wrote:

> To ask a company to extract the data physically would probably be VERY VERY
> expensive and time consuming.

If the drive still works, you might be able to use some commercial 
recovery software, some kind of forensics program, or even to mount the 
drive READONLY with a Linux live CD and recover data that way. Look for 
a Unix utility called "dd" and read the docs.

If the drive is kaput, then most of these companies start over a grand 
and work up from there, depending on how much data. Is your data worth a 
grand?

I called one of these places up here in Holland once, and after choking 
when I heard the price tag, asked for some advice. The guy told me that 
what they usually do is simply get an identical model of harddrive and 
transplant the drive controller chip from the new one to the broken one. 
90% of the time, that will get the drive running so that the data can be 
extracted. Requires some skill in soldering, of course, as well as a 
throw-away drive, and doesn't deal with any physical damage to the disk 
clusters themselves you might have, but it's how the pros do it.

good luck,
d.
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