Shane J Pearson wrote:
What I did in that case, was image with Ghost and when the drive
spins-down, pull the power plug on the drive alone, then plug it back in
to get a few more minutes of copying. Keep doing that until the whole
drive is imaged. Thankfully, this worked perfectly for me.
Another thing I have seen successfully done when a drive would not
spin-up at all, was a PCB swap from an exact same drive
(model/firmware). If you try this, image the drive and then restore to
another disk. Since when I saw this done, the newly fixed drive with
different PCB died only days later in the same way. As if something
inside the drive killed something on the outer PCB.
I have done both of these things in the past, when desperate, with some success. I've
also sent a super-critical drive out to drivesavers (I think it was them) and they saved
it, but it was mucho $.
It all depends on how much you need it.
Also, look into RAID _5_ in the future.
And a final note of wisdom -- SMART monitoring is your friend. Use it. Check it weekly
on every system you own. I saved a lot of hassle when one drive in my (Linux) file
server's RAID 5 told me one day "Failure Imminent". I overnighted the exact same model ans
swapped it out the next day, preventing a lot of headache.
Shane
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