Depends on what the problem is. I have a drive I need to send in for recovery, most likely a logical board issue, which is about $800, but I will probably get all the information off because there are no bad sectors or anything else really wrong. I was told if I supplied parts the price would drop a good bit. Most data recovery is based on the size of the drive, a 160 would be much less than my $750 and if you find a good place they will sometimes give a free quote after checking out the drive.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Joel Brauer <[email protected]> wrote: > Wait, are you saying that if I want to recover lost images off a 160gb > failed drive, I have to wait 37 days? Is this really the best option? > > Joel Brauer > > Only you can decide to be happy! The rest of life is in the details... > > > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey guys, thought I'd share with you some finding I'm having while >> trying to get a good ddrescue rip of a failing drive so that I can >> recover some rare pics for a coworker of mine. >> >> For those unfamiliar with what this is about -- boot to System Rescue >> CD, mount the USB target drive (ntfs-3g for drives that are NTFS, so >> that you can take really big files), and then type in >> >> ddrescue /dev/(drive) /mnt/path/to/file.dd /mnt/path/to/log.txt >> >> Once this works, I then have the option of "mount -o" ing the image on a >> different media as a loopback and scaning it with my other tools, such >> as Photorec. Here is a great tutorial with examples: >> >> http://www.manpagez.com/info/ddrescue/ddrescue-1.10/ddrescue_5.php >> http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec_Step_By_Step >> >> The average rate thus far is 58,335 B/s. >> >> Converting that to MBps is >> >> 58,335 Bps * (1 MBps / 1024 KBps) * (1KBps / 1024 Bps) => .05 MBps >> >> The drive is 160 GBs, so... >> >> 160GB * 1024 MBs/GB = 163,840 MB >> >> rate * seconds = MBs recovered >> >> MBs recovered / rate = seconds >> >> 163,840 MBs / .05 MBps = 3276800 seconds -> 54613 minutes -> 910 hours >> -> 37 days >> >> One cool thing about ddrescue is that the log file allows you to quickly >> recover in case of an emergency. Make sure that you put that log file >> on a medium that is *not* part of something that will go away with a >> reboot! >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > > -- Peter Manis (678) 269-7979
