On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:54:51 +1200 david merriman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, I intend to dump the disk once I get everything I can off it. > > I've heard of putting disks in the freezer, never tried it though. I > did consider turning the pc off overnight (I usually leave it running), > and trying again when it was cold, but at the moment it's running a > SpinRite scan over all the drives (when I checked it this morning, it > had been stuck on one block all night, hadn't moved...). > 1. Stop everything you're doing on it 2. Put in freezer. 3. On Sunday, connect it to a linux box with at least as much spare storage as the capacity of the disk. 4. dd the complete disk, partition by partition to iso images on the live disk. 5. Work on those images. The situation that you're now in is that everything you try lessens the chance of recovering anything, so it's imperative to work on a copy, not the original - it won't degrade... and you do nothing to the original, leave it to recover a bit, then go for it. Also, if the head's stuck, remember that these modern, newfangled disks can take shock of hundreds of G's - not like the old days when we had to shut down for a week while they were installing pilings next door... And you try telling that to the kids of today (: Steve
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