Seriously, aki, what have you not done? Let me give you a challenge: create a kenyan 'aki' linux distro. Akinux:) I will play the guinea pig On 9/4/09, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Data recovery. I think I was one of the first ones to start this back in 1996 and had a partner ( James ) who I've not seen for many years now, hopefully he is doing well somewhere. :-)
*What do you need for data recovery :*
- Clean, dust free room. Medical gloves, anti-static wrist strap.
- Various drives that you can remove the controller cards from. For laptops this is too easy
- For reading from sectors, use something that is used by security agencies but a level lower. I ordered my lab software from a company in San Francisco who were willing to deal on specialized vetting.
*What can you attempt ( if you do not drink heavily.... ), in a worst case scenario.*
- Make a glass box with sides for gloves. Open the hdd in a clean air dehumidified dust free room, remove the heads first without scratching the platter surface, then remove the platters. These platters can be installed in a same capacity drive.
- Remember to park the heads, then startup as an external drive. Use lab recovery software to read from sectors and read the sectors.
The platters can be scratched by even a simple speck of dust, so ensure the opening and closing of the air tight covers is done in a very very very clean place. Incase the problem is the platters itself, you will see the burn marks on them or other markings.
Or for very specialized recovery from damaged platters, you will have to ship the drive to labs that recoat these. less chances of recovery.
Has much changed these days? My thots....
Rgds.
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