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

["Graham Howe" <graham@xxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mick Furlong [mailto:dorsai@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 31 August 2001 17:08
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx; Graham Howe
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT (surprise, surprise) Getting data
> off dead disk
>
>
> 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 ;)
>
Well I must admit I was surprised, but as soon as I put the disk in another
machine, then the other machine fails to identify any disks at boot up.
when
the faulty disk is removed everything is fine again.

> 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.
>
The HTML pages in question are multiple pages of text entered by hand as
they were not available in electronic format, I really don't want to redo
them unless absolutely necessary.

> 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.
>

Actually it is quite a modern disk so this is probably not an option,
besides I don't have an identical disk.

> 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.
>
Yeah, I though of that and have searched the cache of every machine at
home,
no luck I'm afraid.

Regards

Graham