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| Thread ID: 41973 | 2004-01-28 02:02:00 | Major Power supply and hard drive problem - help!? | PoWa (203) | Press F1 |
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| 210643 | 2004-01-28 05:57:00 | The casing is assembled and "sealed" in a clean room environment because dust is the major problem. But the sealing can't be hermetic -- with the thermal range they experience they would balloon. Putting it in a freezer would not be a good idea. That would cause condensation of the humid air that dirty great hole has let into the casing. One of the techniques used in recovery is to fit a known good PCB ... |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 210644 | 2004-01-29 04:27:00 | Computer Forensics NZ Ltd quoted me $1500 - $2000 to recover the 120gbs of data... Now what would Jared do... Aaaaarrrgghh!!! AAAAAARRGGHHHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! So then I've had a look at the alternative: www.ptech.co.nz (Peacock technologies) and their prices range from $200 to $800 and might be able to give me a discount because I'm a hard up student :| Soo crazy. And apparently if you take it to a data recovery place and they have to open it up to fix it etc, then that invalidates the 3yr warranty that I paid for! Is that crazy or what?? |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 210645 | 2004-01-29 11:00:00 | the question is do you realy NEED the data? you would not catch me paying $1000 to recover mp3's |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 210646 | 2004-01-29 11:03:00 | have you tried plugging the drive back in and accesing the data thru knoppix or whatever it is? | metla (154) | ||
| 210647 | 2004-01-29 11:10:00 | this would e a bad move at this point as the drive is dammaged. the problem is not just OS / file system. the platters are open to the air and so the drive should not be used. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 210648 | 2004-01-29 11:16:00 | I suspect your warranty was voided when the sticker came off exposing the hole. If you _aren't_ going to go through a data recovery company you might be able to atleast get something back yourself. You said you were able to boot from it so it must be sort of working, you could connect it to the secondary IDE channel and copy anything you can to your replacement drive. Get the important stuff first, and you might want to try and find a program that will continue copying if it hits an error. But as I said, only do it if you data isn't worth the amount quoted by the companies. It might be a good idea to wait for someone else to comment as I haven't tried it with a drive that damaged. |
bmason (508) | ||
| 210649 | 2004-01-29 11:20:00 | > this would e a bad move at this point as the drive is > dammaged . > > the problem is not just OS / file system . > > the platters are open to the air and so the drive > should not be used . > Yeah,i fully understand its the entire drive, The way i look at it, she’s buggered, and the cost would be imo to much, so take a last ditch effort to grab the info, at least by booting thru knoppix the drive wouldn’t be accessed as much as booting off the hd and an attempt can be made to copy some of the files . |
metla (154) | ||
| 210650 | 2004-01-29 11:26:00 | this would be true..... I have seen an open drive ( lid off ) work ok for a day, on day two it started dropping sectors by the hundreds. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 210651 | 2004-01-29 12:24:00 | Yeah I could perhaps stick it in as slave and use some dos utility to copy everything off it onto a new drive. But I've kinda struck a deal with the Peacock technologies guy and he reckons he can do it for 50% of the $200- $800 range, but it will take a him a while as it would be low priority. The data is important, and it aint 120gigs of mp3s either lol. The drive is fully encrypted too, so that might make things a little difficult too. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 210652 | 2004-01-30 02:51:00 | Encryption is likely to be an extra problem. :_| Backup is a Good Thing. One of the Bad Things about big disks is that backup becomes a Big Thing. ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
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