[NCSA-discuss] Disk Drive Data Recovery Service

[jbrigman at nc.rr.com]

Joseph has a good point. And before pulling the dd, chill the drive in the freezer for about 35-40 minutes. Act quickly after pulling it out of the freezer. If you can wrap it in a towel to keep it cold, that will help too.

JKB
---- Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote: 
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Liyun Yu wrote:
> 
> > Anyone recommend a good hard disk drive data recovery service and
> > had good experience with?  Trying to recover data from a WindowsXP
> > disk with hardware failure errors.
> > I can mount it via USB, can list the file, but can not see the data/file
> > actually - not security issue.
> 
> not an answer to your question, but before the disk 
> deteriorates any further make a dd copy with noerror and 
> mess with the copy rather than the physical disk
> 
> Joe
> 
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