On 16 July 2015 at 13:52, William Park <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:57:49AM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote: >> Greetings >> >> I have a large system with a fair number of resources which has just come >> home from the hospital (computer) when I had a disk drive fail abruptly. >> >> 1.The tech tells me that the hard drive can be accessed. How do I do a low >> level transfer to another hard drive? >> (This would mean that I would have empty sectors but there is some >> information that I would like to get.) > > 'dd' is the usual answer. But, on a failing disk, it may really kill > it. I've been told that freezing your disk helps with recovery.
I've actually done that: ran the power into the freezer and the data cable out and got the data I needed: the drive had been pretty much deceased before it went in there. It was surprisingly effective. I suppose it depends on the malady: I'd say it's worth a try. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected] --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
