Well, I don't think you have to go as far as removing the platters. I had success one time by getting an identical drive and swapping the logic boards between the two. This allowed me enough time to bring the drive up and copy the data off. At that point, you have your data and the two drives involved can be considered effectively trashed. (You can still use them in a 'throwaway' system, I guess.)
As some have suggested already, I have also had a good degree of success with just using a 'live CD', like Knoppix, Mepis, or the Windows Emergency Recovery Disk. Although, admittedly, if the drive has already started to give you errors, the situation may already be too dire for this method. >Message: 9 >Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:44:58 -0500 >From: "Dustin Puryear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Hard disk recovery >To: <[email protected]> >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > >Oh my God, *me* put the platters into another drive? Hell no! If nothing >else how do you protect the platters from dust? Anyway, I'm not experienced >in this. We already have a quote coming in from OnTrack. I was just trying >to see if anyone had any other leads. > >Leave it to a tech list to suggest that I take out my screwdriver and torch. >:-) > >--- >Puryear Information Technology, LLC >Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 >http://www.puryear-it.com > >Author of "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" >Download your free copy: >http://www.puryear-it.com/bestpractices.htm > > > > >
