restoring from DVDs

2006-08-04 Thread Laurence Darby
Hi All, So one of my disks crashed before I had time to test all the DVD's I backed up to can be read, so I'm currently testing that now... :-/ Haven't had any read errors yet, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed :) BTW, it was actually one disk of nice and fast RAID 0 (so I'm restoring to t

Re: restoring from DVDs

2006-08-05 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 12:29:43AM +0100, Laurence Darby wrote: > BTW, it was actually one disk of nice and fast RAID 0 (so I'm > restoring to the one good disk). Does anybody know if data recovery from > it would be possible? I hope *not*, since I'm sending it back under > waranty, and I can't er

Re: restoring from DVDs

2006-08-06 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 12:29:43AM +0100, Laurence Darby wrote: > > BTW, it was actually one disk of nice and fast RAID 0 (so I'm > > restoring to the one good disk). Does anybody know if data recovery from > > it would be possible? I hope *not*, since

Re: restoring from DVDs

2006-08-06 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 09:41:39AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > I've had quite good luck doing poor man's data recovery. Boot the > > machine into Knoppix or like ilk and use dd_rescue to copy the disk to > > an image file or another disk. dd_rescue is smart about skipping > > areas of th

Re: restoring from DVDs

2006-08-06 Thread Laurence Darby
Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 09:41:39AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > I've had quite good luck doing poor man's data recovery. Boot the > > > machine into Knoppix or like ilk and use dd_rescue to copy the disk to > > > an image file or another disk. dd_rescue is smar

Re: restoring from DVDs

2006-08-06 Thread Ross Vandegrift
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 03:13:39PM +0100, Laurence Darby wrote: > This is besides the point, but that wont work, and I'm not sure if you > completely understand the situation. I *DON'T* want data to be > recovered from the drive, and because I'm returning it under warranty, I > want the data on it

Re: restoring from DVDs

2006-08-06 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 03:14:40PM +0100, Laurence Darby wrote: > Ross Vandegrift wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 09:41:39AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > > I've had quite good luck doing poor man's data recovery. Boot the > > This is besides the point, but that wont work, and I

Re: restoring from DVDs

2006-08-06 Thread Laurence Darby
Jon LaBadie wrote: > > I wonder about returning it under warranty. > If the data has sufficient sensitivity, it might be easiest > to eat the cost of a new replacement drive. The net-cost > would be reduced by the time spent trying to destroy the data. > I'm trying to get the warranty replac

Re: restoring from DVDs

2006-08-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 06 August 2006 13:14, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 03:14:40PM +0100, Laurence Darby wrote: >> Ross Vandegrift wrote: >> > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 09:41:39AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> > > > I've had quite good luck doing poor man's data recovery. Boot >> > > > the

Re: restoring from DVDs

2006-08-06 Thread Laurence Darby
Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 03:13:39PM +0100, Laurence Darby wrote: > > This is besides the point, but that wont work, and I'm not sure if > > you completely understand the situation. I *DON'T* want data to be > > recovered from the drive, and because I'm returning it under >