Re: NetBSD-friendly HDD recovery?
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"
Re: NetBSD-friendly HDD recovery?
> 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
Re: NetBSD-friendly HDD recovery?
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 11:54:41 -0600 David Young wrote: > I have some old Seagate-brand spinning rust with a NetBSD system on > it. The disk does not spin up, but I am pretty sure that the content is > intact, and I would like to have it for a reasonable price. Is there a > service that's known to be NetBSD friendly? ACE Data Recovery https://www.datarecovery.net/ I had a FreeBSD ZFS filesystem that I thoroughly screwed up due to my own negligence. They wanted $1800 to recover it. They had to put another head and actuator in it to get anything at all. They were able to recover a lot of old stuff that I had old backups for, but couldn't recover the stuff from the last year when I had no backup. After a few months of trying they gave up and gave us the disk drive *and money* back. I Highly recommend them. -- Ted Spradley
Re: NetBSD-friendly HDD recovery?
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? > 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 -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"
