the funniest one i've heard is putting the HD in the freezer overnight, and then you can quickly extract stuff before it goes bad again. It's probably a rare (or folklore?) case, but still..... if you are absolutely desperate,there are companies who do this for a living (think $$$)
peter On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Alexander Mahabir wrote: > Hi group, > > I am attempting to recover data of a physically defected hard disk that > returns dma_intr I/O errors. > I was wondering if any had ever come accross this sort of problem and had > found a solution, or know of any tools / utilities that I could possibly use > to aid my data recovery project. > So far, I've tried to dd the disk onto a new drive, and run fsck on that, > however that wasn't very successfull. So now Im back to the drawing board. > > Thanks, > -Alex. >
