@Graham Be sure you pack it well with LOTS OF PADDING before you mail it! If it is breaking down you don't want the post office doing more damage to it.
@Javier RIP (http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/) is great for that sort of thing if you haven't tried it yet and spinright doesn't do the trick. It includes Testdisk which rocks. You're right about computer shops giving up too easily. I've picked up drives that shops have "given up on" and recovered the data simply by plugging it into my linux box and mounting it normally. I've even used cp -frv to recover data from a drive experiencing the click of death. As long as the bios detects it and the magic smoke hasn't escaped the controller board you have a chance. ;) -Kyle On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Graham Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll mail it to you Javier, what's your address, Graham > > > On May 26, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Javier Garcia wrote: > > @Graham: I am wondering if it is save to be sent my mail to me, or we just > wait until I come over again. > > @Joey: no, I haven't, but I will look into it. I use a couple of tools in > Linux which are very powerful. Perhaps the disc is toasted, but I've seen > many Computer guys giving up on drives because the first sector went bad or > just because their particular tool doesn't work. I hear there are pretty > neat tools for mac too. > > Javier. > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Joey Kelley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Javier, >> Have you heard of SpinRite? >> Has done some amazing things for me... >> -Joey >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Javier Garcia <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Save the drive Graham, don't throw it away. I can try a couple of tricks >>> just in case. >>> Javier. >>> >>> >>> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Graham Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Computer shop tried everything to retrieve the data with no success. I >>>> did back up on discs up till about a year or two ago but now I can't find >>>> the discs, Graham >>>> >>>> On May 25, 2011, at 6:58 PM, Javier Garcia wrote: >>>> >>>> Graham, >>>> I am sorry to hear that. Did you had a backup of your files? are you >>>> sure they can't be recovered? What did the guy at the computer shop told >>>> you? >>>> Javier. >>>> >>>> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Graham Rogers <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Our computer crashed last week - lost everything on the hard drive so I >>>>> am starting over and the only way I will have e-mail addresses is if you >>>>> mail them to me. I have Javier's. 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