[BBLISA] Data recovery lessons?

[Alfred Werner]

I agree 100% with that - makes you look like a true wizard as well. That
technique saved my butt when I worked at Westinghouse - we thought we had
lost a drive but a switched controller board saved the day.

On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Shawn G. Doughty wrote:

> Scott,
>
> Something that has been of great value to me time and again is being able
> to swap controller boards on failed drives.  If a drive appears to be
> "going bad" and is unreadable just grab a T9 bit take off the controller
> board, replace it with one from an identical model drive then try to read
> the data off using regular methods.
>
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> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>
> > I've had a big interest in learning the techniques involved in data
> > recovery, including deleted files, crashed hard drives, RAID setups,
> > unreadable floppy disks, etc.   I've left messages over the last few
> > months with a place local to me, but they haven't returned calls, so I
> > presume they are not interested in showing me (or anyone?)
> >
> > I'd be happy to volunteer somewhere on a Saturday, or multiple Saturdays,
> > just to learn.   Do any classes or good books teach the practice?   I do,
> > ultimately, want hands-on (or at least watch someone else perform the task
> > and I watch).
> >
> > Thanks for any leads.
> >
> > Scott
> >
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