[colug-432] disk recovery

[Dan Kaiser]

I can't speak to local services, but I have been able to wrap a failing HDD in
paper towel and then ziplock bag and freeze it for a while.  Once cold I was
able to get it to spin up just long enough to recover my files.  I've only had
about 50% success rate with that trick, but might be worth a shot.
-Dan

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -
Aristotle
 





On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 2:45 PM, Rick Troth rmt at casita.net
wrote:
Hot on the heals of the "Flawless
Drive" thread, my wife's laptop was
clicking this morning. [sigh] 

I do make backups. 
But now I see the error of my ways. 
Won't bore y'all with the how and why, but my backup strategy has
fallen into "infrequent" and "manual". 
So here's another case where the community is warned: backup
early, backup often. 

Meanwhile, I'm looking for disk/data recovery advice. 
I found Disk Doctors near the Ohio State campus. Likely will
pony-up the bounty they'll demand, but Marilyn and I are both
doing "research" for the best options. Y'all got any ideas?
services you like? services you don't? 

Thanks. 

-- R; <><
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