On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 16:10 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, wes wrote: > > > There's also the old freezer trick, but it depends on how valuable the > > data is. There are risks with both tricks, as they could just as easily > > break it worse. > > The question I've not seen asked her is whether data on the disk can be > accessed despite the clicks. If so, hooking up an external disk (via USB, > perhaps) and copying everything off the failing disk would be quicker and > less expensive.
The question therein is whether Chaz has tried utilities such as dd_rescue and/or dd_rhelp, which can recover data from a nearly failing hard drive. dd_rescue helped me recover all but I think 2 files from a failing laptop drive about 4 years ago. Just from my faulty memory, once started, it took about 4 hours on a 20 GB partition, but with the right switches, it was pretty much automatic. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
