Re: Data Recovery Services

2016-01-21 Thread Peter Faraday
Iv had some luck with drives where the head gets suck in the park position. If the drive spins up then shuts down it could be this. Bit of an agricultural fix but, take the lid off and give the head a slight nudge off the centre and get the lid back on quick. I'm lead to believe this will only

Re: Data Recovery Services

2016-01-21 Thread Liam Proven
On 21 January 2016 at 12:50, Peter Faraday wrote: > Iv had some luck with drives where the head gets suck in the park position. > If the drive spins up then shuts down it could be this. Bit of an > agricultural fix but, take the lid off and give the head a slight nudge off >

Re: Data Recovery Services

2016-01-20 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 02:53:07PM -0800, John Robertson wrote: > Yes, I know, it depends on the age of the drive as I suspect early ones were > possibly tuned to the mechanics of the drive. Nothing made after 2000 is > likely to care much though. Of course I should have stated that I used that

Re: Data Recovery Services

2016-01-20 Thread Pete Rittwage
> I need to recover some files from a SCSI drive that failed over a decade > ago.  Are there data recovery services that can determine if the files on > the drive can be recovered or can actually do such a recovery?  Now that > I think about it, I recently also had a fairly new Wes

Re: Data Recovery Services

2016-01-20 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 01/20/2016 11:26 AM, Pete Rittwage wrote: The services can be expensive (in the thousands, typically) so the data has to be pretty valuable to you in order to proceed. I'll second Drivesavers--they've recovered very damaged drives, including a few buried in mud after a hurricaine.

Re: Data Recovery Services

2016-01-20 Thread Fred Cisin
If the problem is merely corruption of the file system, but the hardware is still working well, then the repairs could be almost trivial.

Data Recovery Services

2016-01-20 Thread JC White
I need to recover some files from a SCSI drive that failed over a decade ago.  Are there data recovery services that can determine if the files on the drive can be recovered or can actually do such a recovery?  Now that I think about it, I recently also had a fairly new Western Digital drive

Re: Data Recovery Services

2016-01-20 Thread Fred Cisin
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, JC White wrote: I need to recover some files from a SCSI drive that failed over a decade ago.?? Are there data recovery services that can determine if the files on the drive can be recovered or can actually do such a recovery??? Now that I think about it, I recently also

Re: Data Recovery Services

2016-01-20 Thread John Robertson
On 01/20/2016 11:22 AM, JC White wrote: I need to recover some files from a SCSI drive that failed over a decade ago. Are there data recovery services that can determine if the files on the drive can be recovered or can actually do such a recovery? Now that I think about it, I recently also

Re: Data Recovery Services

2016-01-20 Thread Eric Christopherson
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:35:22PM -0800, John Robertson wrote: > > If the drive's PCB turned out to be the problem, could an identical > > drive model act as a donor for a known-to-be-good PCB? > > I've done this on modern drives. It is not

Re: Data Recovery Services

2016-01-20 Thread Toby Thain
On 2016-01-20 5:00 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:35:22PM -0800, John Robertson wrote: If the drive's PCB turned out to be the problem, could an identical drive model act as a donor for a known-to-be-good PCB? I've done this on modern drives. It is not particularly

Re: Data Recovery Services

2016-01-20 Thread Göran Axelsson
Den 2016-01-20 kl. 21:35, skrev John Robertson: On 01/20/2016 11:22 AM, JC White wrote: I need to recover some files from a SCSI drive that failed over a decade ago. Are there data recovery services that can determine if the files on the drive can be recovered or can actually do

Re: Data Recovery Services

2016-01-20 Thread John Robertson
On 01/20/2016 2:00 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:35:22PM -0800, John Robertson wrote: If the drive's PCB turned out to be the problem, could an identical drive model act as a donor for a known-to-be-good PCB? I've done this on modern drives. It is not particularly tricky.

Re: Data Recovery Services

2016-01-20 Thread Mark Linimon
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:35:22PM -0800, John Robertson wrote: > If the drive's PCB turned out to be the problem, could an identical > drive model act as a donor for a known-to-be-good PCB? I've done this on modern drives. It is not particularly tricky. mcl

Re: Data Recovery Services

2016-01-20 Thread Mike Whalen
On January 20, 2016 at 5:06:19 PM, Eric Christopherson (echristopher...@gmail.com) wrote: It can work. But I remember reading that each PCB keeps track of bad  physical blocks; if you transplant the PCB from another drive, you might  end up with a different set of bad blocks beings saved.  I