On Thu, 6 May 2004, Brice Burgess wrote:
> A friend of mine (whom hasn't yet learned the virtue of data
> redundancy) has experienced a hard drive failure and is hoping to
> somehow recover the data from the drive.
I had a 60G hard drive start making "click ... click" noises. What I did
was get a 120G drive, and copy each partition into a huge file with "dd
if=/dev/hdcwhatever of=bigfile conv=noerror bs=1024", back it up, run
"losetup" on it, fsck it, mount it read-only, and copy the files off.
Got almost everything back that way.
> Perhaps someone from this list knows the skinny on this?
My mac's hard drive experienced stiction(?) maybe a decade ago, and I had
to send the drive to a firm in California who charged a grand. The
market's probably gotten better since then.
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