On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:15:56PM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > The situation: I have a 2008 Toshiba Satellite laptop that has a > failed hard drive. Since the computer is still under warranty, I took > it to a Toshiba authorized repair place. Their offer is to replace the > failed hard drive with a new hard drive and then ship the failed hard > drive out to Toshiba headquarters to never be seen again. This would > be all fine except for one problem; I didn't back up the hard drive. > Even though the computer technician says the hard drive data can't be > recovered, I know otherwise. The hard drive spins enough to boot up > the Toshiba welcome screen, but after that it stops. I know there are > forensic techniques that are employed in situations similar to this.
If you think it's a physical failure, stick the drive in your freezer overnight and then put it ice-cold back in your computer. If the drive seems physically fine, you'll want to image the drive so you can send the drive back to Toshiba and keep on working to recover the data from the image. Patrick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
