Logic board issues are cheaper to fix if you buy the same type of drive and swap the IC boards, I have done it before.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Peter Manis <[email protected]> wrote: > Depends on what the problem is. I have a drive I need to send in for > recovery, most likely a logical board issue, which is about $800, but I will > probably get all the information off because there are no bad sectors or > anything else really wrong. I was told if I supplied parts the price would > drop a good bit. Most data recovery is based on the size of the drive, a > 160 would be much less than my $750 and if you find a good place they will > sometimes give a free quote after checking out the drive. > > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Joel Brauer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Wait, are you saying that if I want to recover lost images off a 160gb >> failed drive, I have to wait 37 days? Is this really the best option? >> >> Joel Brauer >> >> Only you can decide to be happy! The rest of life is in the details... >> >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hey guys, thought I'd share with you some finding I'm having while >>> trying to get a good ddrescue rip of a failing drive so that I can >>> recover some rare pics for a coworker of mine. >>> >>> For those unfamiliar with what this is about -- boot to System Rescue >>> CD, mount the USB target drive (ntfs-3g for drives that are NTFS, so >>> that you can take really big files), and then type in >>> >>> ddrescue /dev/(drive) /mnt/path/to/file.dd /mnt/path/to/log.txt >>> >>> Once this works, I then have the option of "mount -o" ing the image on a >>> different media as a loopback and scaning it with my other tools, such >>> as Photorec. Here is a great tutorial with examples: >>> >>> http://www.manpagez.com/info/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.10/ddrescue_5.php >>> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step >>> >>> The average rate thus far is 58,335 B/s. >>> >>> Converting that to MBps is >>> >>> 58,335 Bps * (1 MBps / 1024 KBps) * (1KBps / 1024 Bps) => .05 MBps >>> >>> The drive is 160 GBs, so... >>> >>> 160GB * 1024 MBs/GB = 163,840 MB >>> >>> rate * seconds = MBs recovered >>> >>> MBs recovered / rate = seconds >>> >>> 163,840 MBs / .05 MBps = 3276800 seconds -> 54613 minutes -> 910 hours >>> -> 37 days >>> >>> One cool thing about ddrescue is that the log file allows you to quickly >>> recover in case of an emergency. Make sure that you put that log file >>> on a medium that is *not* part of something that will go away with a >>> reboot! >>> _______________________________________________ >>> LinuxUsers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> >> > > > -- > Peter Manis > (678) 269-7979 > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > >
