Re: Hardware Recovery Company
Hi Polytropon cc list, I wrote: You could look at man fsdb FreeBSD offers a lot of versatile diagnostic and rescue tools, and surely fsdb is one of them. Others, provided by the base system, are fetch -rR device and also recoverdisk. In the ports collection you'll find tools like ddrescue, dd_rescue, ffs2recov, magicrescue, testdisk, scan_ffs, recoverjpeg, foremost and photorec. And finally there is The Sleuth Kit (with its tools fls, dls, ils and autopsy). Could you please submit a send-pr to add that useful list to man fsdb ? (If you dont want to i would, but as you obviously know this area better ... :-) I saw no answer to this none in archive beyond this http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?201105211952.p4LJqHcX091659 So I searched, sent a send-pr Polytropon, 2 tools you mentioned I couldnt find, if you or others have info please add to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=157351 Thanks Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, Not HTML, Not base 64. Reply below text sections not at top, to avoid breaking cumulative context. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hardware Recovery Company
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Hi, Reference: From: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 11:08:21 -0400 Message-id: banlktikm6asm5uddryhqmb3w_ruxvd4...@mail.gmail.com [...] Announcing you'r thinking if suing the 1st rescuer, might make some people might be nervous in being 2nd rescuer. grin Yeah, really didn't think of that, I'm just so pissed that I think we're willing to pay the extra forensic work to find out. You know, when you have that feeling that someone took you as stupid, and these cases of desperation people tend to make mistakes like I did, instead of doing some background search, you immediately fall victim of con artists, like I __just know__ these guys are. I mean the flashy Web site, the first google sponsored link, the insistence on not dropping off the dirve (which I did and really did not feel comfortable with the installations, you know, but with the desperation we all tend to fall victims to these fraudulent mock ups), I guess I just wanted to be wrong. Then the technical mumbo-jumbo, the long delays, you know it all adds up man. I honestly think these people ripped me off _a lot of money_ that you have to commit up front. It's just a freaking scam and I would like to blow their cover and shut the down. We should never let people screw us like this. You could look at man fsdb It's a clear hardware failure. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, Not HTML, Not base 64. Reply below text sections not at top, to avoid breaking cumulative context. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Other lists exist too - Was Re: Hardware Recovery Company
Hi Robert, Thanks for your repsonse, I mailed postmas...@freebsd.org that this thread exists, invited him to consider list definitions in light of past, present possible future response that may be psoted on this thread. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, Not HTML, Not base 64. Reply below text sections not at top, to avoid breaking cumulative context. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hardware Recovery Company
Hi, Reference: From: Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 11:08:21 -0400 Message-id: banlktikm6asm5uddryhqmb3w_ruxvd4...@mail.gmail.com Alejandro Imass wrote: Hi folks, I recently sent a hard drive to be recovered and I think they just ripped me off. I have the back-up drive and believe it or not it has the same exact symptoms and won't mount. So I want to send both drives to a REAL AND TRUSTED LAB for 2 things: 1) Forensics on the supposed head-replecement mumbo-jumbo/scam crap of the other lab 2) Recovery of the data of the back-up drive I guess this only happens once in a lifetime when both drives die, but I can't risk the second drive to a non-certified lab. I really trust the people on this list so hopefully you can point me to a real and non-bullshit lab that can really recover data. It would be nice to know if the lab can actually do #1 and certify my concerns and willing to testify in court because I want to press legal charges against the other lab if they in fact ripped me off and jeopardized my data. But if they can't I still need to recover the data! HELP! Thanks beforehand ! Announcing you'r thinking if suing the 1st rescuer, might make some people might be nervous in being 2nd rescuer. You could look at man fsdb Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, Not HTML, Not base 64. Reply below text sections not at top, to avoid breaking cumulative context. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hardware Recovery Company
On Sat, 21 May 2011 21:14:39 +0200, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Alejandro Imass wrote: Hi folks, I recently sent a hard drive to be recovered and I think they just ripped me off. I have the back-up drive and believe it or not it has the same exact symptoms and won't mount. So I want to send both drives to a REAL AND TRUSTED LAB for 2 things: 1) Forensics on the supposed head-replecement mumbo-jumbo/scam crap of the other lab 2) Recovery of the data of the back-up drive I guess this only happens once in a lifetime when both drives die, but I can't risk the second drive to a non-certified lab. I really trust the people on this list so hopefully you can point me to a real and non-bullshit lab that can really recover data. It would be nice to know if the lab can actually do #1 and certify my concerns and willing to testify in court because I want to press legal charges against the other lab if they in fact ripped me off and jeopardized my data. But if they can't I still need to recover the data! HELP! Thanks beforehand ! You could look at man fsdb FreeBSD offers a lot of versatile diagnostic and rescue tools, and surely fsdb is one of them. Others, provided by the base system, are fetch -rR device and also recoverdisk. In the ports collection you'll find tools like ddrescue, dd_rescue, ffs2recov, magicrescue, testdisk, scan_ffs, recoverjpeg, foremost and photorec. And finally there is The Sleuth Kit (with its tools fls, dls, ils and autopsy). Those tools keep you from spending money to companies who also use software (this one or something else). You could also waste money on recovery programs that won't work, so trying to use the tools mentioned would be the first step. I may give two additional advices in this context: 1. Do not work with the original disk. Make a dd copy and work with the image. 2. Read about what you're dealing with. This may consume some tome, but it really helps understanding what the problem is, and therefore helps finding a solution. This is the part of the story that I know from my own desaster. :-) But as soon as you encounter hardware problems with the disk, you should try to find a recovery lab you can trust. It can be a very complicated search, and the result will traditionally also be expensive. This is the case when they can do something you can't do on yourself (e. g. disasselmbling a disk, exchanging heads in a clean-room environment) - it's mostly a matter of dealing with hardware. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hardware Recovery Company
On Sat, 21 May 2011 14:14:39 -0500, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: I really trust the people on this list so hopefully you can point me to a real and non-bullshit lab that can really recover data. Gillware, Inc. Here's a referral code as well: 13967 http://www.gillware.com/ Regards, Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hardware Recovery Company
Hi Polytropon cc list, you wrote You could look at man fsdb FreeBSD offers a lot of versatile diagnostic and rescue tools, and surely fsdb is one of them. Others, provided by the base system, are fetch -rR device and also recoverdisk. In the ports collection you'll find tools like ddrescue, dd_rescue, ffs2recov, magicrescue, testdisk, scan_ffs, recoverjpeg, foremost and photorec. And finally there is The Sleuth Kit (with its tools fls, dls, ils and autopsy). Could you please submit a send-pr to add that useful list to man fsdb ? (If you dont want to i would, but as you obviously know this area better ... :-) Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, Not HTML, Not base 64. Reply below text sections not at top, to avoid breaking cumulative context. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Other lists exist too - Was Re: Hardware Recovery Company
For Alejandro Imass as original poster re. Hardware Recovery Company: FreebSD has a special mail list for file systeme it's name is f...@freebsd.org. (we also have hardware@ etc) For all, Questions@ started as a catch all fallback address for simple beginners questions from the newly installed, who didn't know / hadn't yet read http://www.freebsd.org/community/mailinglists.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL to find where more exactly one might ask a question. Recently questions@ seems to be performing roughly the same purpose as hackers@ list, a random jamboree/ mellange of topics, which doesnt make much sense to me (where theyre posted, not the content of the questions), I think a lot of questions@ traffic would be better posted to hackers@ or other themed @freebsd.org lists. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail plain text; Not quoted-printable, Not HTML, Not base 64. Reply below text sections not at top, to avoid breaking cumulative context. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
[OT] Re: Hardware Recovery Company
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: Hi folks, I recently sent a hard drive to be recovered and I think they just ripped me off. I have the back-up drive and believe it or not it has the same exact symptoms and won't mount. So I want to send both drives to a REAL AND TRUSTED LAB for 2 things: Sorry people, forgot the OT Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
