On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Brad Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Long story short (yeah yeah) I remembered my iRiver h340 has the same > physical size drive with the > same connector, so stripping the iRiver down to bare board I fitted the > drive, plugged in a USB and > PSU cable and stuck the whole thing in a "Glad" sandwich bag sealed with > cellotape. Popped the whole > lot in the freezer and ran the cables out through the door seal. Chilled it > down and plugged it in. > > rsync, dd_rescue, dd, nc and gzip are fantastic data recovery tools :)
I just went through the same disk failure ordeal. I was saved by ddrescue and SpinRite. I used ddrescue (off the Ubuntu Rescue Remix CD) to copy all the original contents it could get over to a backup. Then SpinRite, which took overnight. Then ddrescue to copy over the recovered disk. Booted in and it worked! SpinRite repaired the disk, even with its bad block. I was amazed. No freezer involved. SpinRite: http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm -todd
