Hi Peter
On 14/08/14 20:24, Peter Merchant wrote:
On 13/08/14 17:17, Tim wrote:
> I had a Lacie single disk (500gb) nas but for the last few days I have
> not been able to contact it. I have rebooted it several time via
> turning it on and off but that made no difference, there is a blue
> l
Hi Peter,
> At how old should I be 'refreshing' or duplicating my DVD backups?
Format shift quite often, I would think. That said, I've some 5ΒΌ"
floppies to access one day. Rob Pike recently wrote about the topic and
the value of real photos tucked away in a shoebox for your descendants.
http:/
On 13/08/14 17:17, Tim wrote:
> I had a Lacie single disk (500gb) nas but for the last few days I have
> not been able to contact it. I have rebooted it several time via
> turning it on and off but that made no difference, there is a blue
> light that come on and occasionally flickers (which is no
On 13/08/14 17:17, Tim wrote:
> I had a Lacie single disk (500gb) nas but for the last few days I have
> not been able to contact it. I have rebooted it several time via
turning it on and off but that made no difference, there is a blue
> light that come on and occasionally flickers (which is no
Hi,
> Tim wrote:
> > I was thinking about removing the hard disk and putting it in a USB
> > disk reader and hopefully recovering some or all of my data
Be sure to mount any partitions presented as "read only". Even if you
think you're not modifying the files there's still filesystem meta-data,
Hi,
TimA wrote:
> > dd does a low level copy so it should copy the partition table and
> > any recoverable data. By only reading from the potentially damaged
> > disk once you may avoid further data loss.
>
> Or ddrescue. Method of use is similar to dd but specifically designed
> to recover faili
Hi Tim
On 14/08/14 08:04, Ken Hutton wrote:
You can clone the disk yourself if you have a new drive e.g.:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc
Or create an image on a larger disk e.g.:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/mnt/newdisk/image
dd does a low level copy so it should copy the partition table and any
recoverabl
You can clone the disk yourself if you have a new drive e.g.:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc
Or create an image on a larger disk e.g.:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/mnt/newdisk/image
dd does a low level copy so it should copy the partition table and any
recoverable data. By only reading from the potentially dam
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