On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 08:21:53AM +0100, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > Are you thinking of something that acts like dd on the whole disk but using > special data-recovery methods? >
Yes. > That would require a medium having equal or greater data capacity. > Well, yes it would though compressing the image can help a bit. > 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. > It does work, I have done it in the past... > The hard-drive manufacturer would surely advise against taking off the > electronics board and would point out that it would void the warranty. > Of course they would but some of us are actually engineers by training and hacking hardware is our trade. It is not something I would recommend to the casual bystander but if you have the skills it can get you over the line - the internals of a hard disk are pretty simple and robust, most failures are the electronics that make it go. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"
