> On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:54:41AM -0600, David Young wrote: > > I want to avoid paying a steep price to a service that scans the > > medium and, finding no FAT/NTFS/HFS+/APFS volume on it, declares it > > unrecoverable when, in actual fact, every bit is intact. Is there a > > service that I can trust my NetBSD disk to that has a reasonable fee > > structure? X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4wfNaO/uhadDlolDP43vqPZS/MYlw7VaTrUleXS7OiANt3YYiieh8/FZJXbGwxyd+n8voRQEWGLzKvFBCyTVIkqusZYoy+6LA8irMCZjAVzYseGJMzlzYV jUvdy7tEbEqXDZij12mRpFmRfo7yhyl4FWf0BdAyFE/ngp+0XLtxdKQu
> Perhaps you can find one that will provide a binary blob of this disk > contents so > you can loop mount the file and recover stuff. As for cost I think the > attitude of > the data recovery places is that they have you by the short and curlies so > they can > charge what they like, I know that recovery can be complex and challenging > but the > pricing does seem excessive. > If you have the same model drive you could take the electronics board off a > working > drive and put it on the dead one - I have done that in the past to good > effect. > Brett Lymn Are you thinking of something that acts like dd on the whole disk but using special data-recovery methods? That would require a medium having equal or greater data capacity. Taking the electronics board off a working drive to transfer to a dead drive carries the risk of messing up and losing both drives. I don't think I'd be daring enough. The hard-drive manufacturer would surely advise against taking off the electronics board and would point out that it would void the warranty. Tom