Try freezing it either by putting in the freezer for a few hours or freeze spray.
-- Keith Stokes > On Aug 12, 2014, at 5:26 PM, Philip Amadeo Saeli <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've had the unfortunate experience of having a laptop hard drive (100 > GB PATA Seagate) [apparently] crash during a brief power outage (no UPS, > no battery). After power was restored, the drive would not spin up at > all. I tried a few simple tricks to get it to spin up without success > (do not want to further damage the drive!). Though the most important > data was on backups, there is quite a bit of data that was to be copied > to a new system later that day (!), and so now needs to be recovered. > > What I'd like is essentially a bit-copy of the entire good portion of > the drive, if possible (such as I have done on drives with bad sectors > using ddrescue). Since the system was running Linux and was essentially > idle during the power outage, I'm hoping that any media damage is either > in the Linux /var or swap partitions, and that the other partitions are > still good. > > The drive has 10 partitions, including ext[23], Linux swap, VFAT, and > NTFS. There is one Linux installation and 2 Windows installations on > the drive in a multiboot setup. > > I am not interested in file recovery, esp since there are quite a > variety of different types of files and filesystems on the drive. I'd > most like a bit-copy of the drive as much as is possible. > > Anyone have any ideas where I can get such service from a trusted (and > not excessively expensive) provider? > > BTW, I'm in the NOLA Northshore area. > > Any ideas would be appreciated. > > Thanks! > > --Phil > > -- > Philip Amadeo Saeli > openSUSE, CentOS, RHEL > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
