[BBLISA] Data recovery lessons?

[Edward Ned Harvey]

For that matter, I've had a lot of luck simply powering down the system for
an hour, and letting the hard drive cool off.

Power back on, and presto, everything works fine for like an hour before it
flakes out again, which is usually enough time to ghost or copy everything
off.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org 
> [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf Of Alfred Werner
> Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 10:38 AM
> To: Shawn G. Doughty
> Cc: bblisa at bblisa.org; Scott Ehrlich
> Subject: Re: [BBLISA] Data recovery lessons?
> 
> 
> 
> 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.
> >
> > --
> > Shawn G. Doughty-A&S Support Staff
> >
> > Email: staff at asunix.tufts.edu
> > Web: http://asunix.tufts.edu/
> > Phone: 617-627-5462
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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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