Re: OT (surprise, surprise) Getting data off dead disk

["Mick Furlong" <dorsai@xxxxxxx>]

Graham

a dodgy slave disc shouldn't render the machine unbootable should it? Are
you
sure there isn't another problem? I thought I had a kaput SCSI disc once
until I notice a bent pin ;)

As to data recovery firms I haven't used one for years but I can tell you
that they used to be damn expensive. Probably cheaper to rewrite the HTML.

If you think the problem is the drive electronics then you could try
swapping
the platter enclosure with an identical disc. I know this isn't possible on
a
lot of modern discs but it can be done on some older ones.

One final straw to clutch at....if you or someone else have accessed the
html
pages from another machine then they might be in that machines browser
cache.
A long shot but worth trying.

HTH
Mick

Graham Howe <graham@xxxxxxx> said:

> I have a bit of a problem at the moment, one of my machines has
suddenly
> failed to boot, with the problem being the hard disk. I have taken the
disk
> out and tried it as a slave in another machine, but doing that renders
the
> other machine unbootable. I can only assume that the disk is badly
damaged.
> Is there any way I am likely to be able to recover the data from this
disk
> myself, if not does anyone have any experience of data recovery firms.
> Fortunately the vast majority of my data is on my network machine
which
> backs up every night to a second disk. The only information I need off
this
> disk is a handful of html pages, so I am hopeful that if I can access
the
> disk then I have a pretty good chance of recovering the data. Any
> suggestions would be most welcome.
>
> Regards
>
> Graham
>
>
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