Good idea. This would work in situations where the drive electronics are hosed. However, I _think_ the drive was submerged; Dustin still has yet to confirm that fact. IDE hard drives are not actually water-tight. They need air in order to float the RW heads just above the disk surface.
John On 9/21/05, jr_G-man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20050921/dd4cafef/attachment.htm From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Sep 21 20:18:38 2005 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shannon Roddy) Date: Wed Sep 21 20:18:06 2005 Subject: [brlug-general] Hard disk recovery In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 9/21/05, John Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shannon, you are excluded from my list of zealots, because you speak from > experience and not from your orifice. Hmmm.... I guess that makes me an experienced zealot then... :D > I have a lot of respect for your > opinions regarding Linux and wouldn't think of ridiculing you for that. Heh... at least someone respects my opinions! > Other opinions are open season. ;) Let's not go there on this list! Feel free to find me on the political boards some time... Shannon
