No freezer involved! Warm beer....yuck.
Todd Walton wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Brad Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:brad%40wasp.net.au>> 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 <http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm> > > -todd > >
