There is always the hard disk in the freezer trick...
See: http://lifehacker.com/5515337/save-a-failed-hard-drive-in-your-freezer-redux
Basically, you put the disk in your freezer for some time, you take it out, plug it and pray that you have enough time to get your data(and that it actually helps).
I've successfully done it once myself. It doesn't always work, but when you are out of options and don't want to pay thousands for the recovery...
I would also recommend copying exactly the data that you need using cp and not doing a full disk image. Doing a disk image is often too hard for a broken drive. If you can mount it, copy the folders that you need quickly and that's it. Also, if you can, write down a list of files and folders in order of importance, then use that list to create a bash script to copy these from the defective drive to a safe location, then run that script once the drive is accessible. Basically, it's a race against time, you want to be as quick as you can.
-- Ravnox Quoting Peter Silva <[email protected]>:
Have an old laptop whose hdd died. unfortunately, it had some precious data. it won't boot, I put it in an external enclosure and I can read the partition table for a few minutes, but then it dies. tried dd'ing off it, got 5 MB in before it died (out of 100 G) my next shot is going to be ddrescue, but if there is someone who knows there stuff, I might recommend getting it Any experience/recommendations?
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