On Jul 10, 2013, at 10:54 AM, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sure the drive is probably toast, but I'd at least like to try to keep it > alive. I'm looking for suggestions. My advice is to forget the tools. Just get the data off NOW while the drive is still functioning, and never use it for anything important again. Make sure that any important data you retrieve was not corrupted while you have a chance to try again. Then start thinking about how you do your backups. You want to be in a situation where ANY single drive failing without warning will not cost you data. You can ratchet up the paranoia level from there (eg burglary, house burning down etc which could take out multiple backups in one hit). Sorry if I seem a little alarmist but I've been in a similar situation with data I really didn't want to lose. I was lucky that time. ...and your sig does seem kind of appropriate ;) > There are two kinds of computer users those who've experienced a hard drive > failure, and those that will. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
