[colug-432] disk recovery

[Bill Baker]

It's actually spelled SpinRite, and it can be purchased here:
https://www.grc.com/cs/prepurch.htm

I highly recommend it.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:

> On 09/21/2016 05:04 PM, Jeff Frontz wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:
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>> Meanwhile, I'm looking for disk/data recovery advice.
>
>
> What's the failure mode?    If the drive is still spinning and able to
> (sometimes) do read/writes, you might try something like SpinWrite.
>
>
> SpinWrite ... I'll check that out.
>
> The symptom is that the disk clicks several times and never shows up under
> /proc/partitions. I haven't dug into /sys/devices yet.
> This is after pulling it from my wife's Toshiba laptop (which can't boot,
> obviously) and putting it into an HP Pavilion "server".
>
> She found it clicking yesterday morning, as if it had been clicking
> perpetually for a while.
> When she rebooted, it failed, so I took the disk out for analysis.
>
> It's loose on a shelf, tethered with SATA and power, so I can hold it and
> feel the disk spinning.
> So it doesn't sound like a stiction problem.
>
> -- R; <><
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