On 12/01/13 15:30, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin@iinet.net.au> wrote:
On 12/01/13 06:30, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On 11/01/13 17:59, Per Jessen wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
On 11/01/13 01:45, Carlos E. R. wrote: > On 2013-01-10 07:34, Per Jessen wrote: > >> I guess it still under warranty then. At least you'll get a >> replacement? > Perhaps. > > First I have to replace it on my own and clone it if possible. When > that is done I'll see about warranty if available. Some years ago I bought a new (main) HDD which went belly-up within the month - just went dead. So I took it back for replacement - and walked out of the shop with a replacement.
When I got to my car I realised that I forgot to ask a question from the tech and went back into the shop. The tech and the shop assistant where copying the all the data off my dead drive! Fortunately I didn't have anything personal or confidential on it. What were those two hdd experts doing in your local shop? Copying data off a dead drive is quite an achievement :-)
No idea how they got the HDD working because when I brought it in the tech put it on one of his machines and the HDD would not spin up which is why I was given a replacement.
One possible way he got it going was as what occurred to a friend of mine in North America whose Maxtor (and my dead HDD was also a Maxtor) died a few months ago and as he couldn't afford to lose the data on it he bought a second-hand circuit board for it for $US35 on the off chance that this would get it working, installed it, and the HDD came back to life (and been running perfectly since). I've done that a lot since we tend to buy drives in bulk and have similar models readily available. It is also the easiest method the
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:36 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin@iinet.net.au> wrote: pro recovery shops use.
It works much of the time, but it can be dangerous because some drives maintain servo data (or something like that) on the controller card, so when you change out the controller card it can cause a true non-recoverable disk crash.
So I guess what would be most important is to buy such a replacement board for the exact same model and year of manufacture of the deaded HDD - which, I understand, is what my friend [fortunately] did.
Basil,
I'm not expert on this which is why I don't handle drives myself where the data is actually valuable.
My reply was rhetorical in its suggested best practice when replacing an HDD circuit board. But, just as an aside, what you just said about not handling the drives yourself: doesn't this introduce some question about the information contained on the HDD(s) which you use in your legal connected forensic work when someone else had worked on the HDD and therefore could have added to or removed material from an HDD used as evidence? [pruned] BC PS And you are still being "A very naughty boy!" [Monty Python, 'Life of Brian'] because you are still sending me a copy of the posts to my private mail box! :-( -- Using openSUSE 12.2 x86_64 KDE 4.10.0 & kernel 3.7.1-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org