I was thinking about doing that, $800 isn't something I want to spend, even though I don't want to lose the information
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Dino K <[email protected]> wrote: > Logic board issues are cheaper to fix if you buy the same type of drive and > swap the IC boards, I have done it before. > > > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Peter Manis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
