[aklug] Re: [EXTERNAL]: Re: UNDELETE

From: Shane Spencer <shane@bogomip.com>
Date: Thu Mar 06 2014 - 16:10:34 AKST

Can anybody spot me $800?

Wow.. this went from threadjacking to begging real quick.

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Jenkinson, John <
John.Jenkinson@alyeska-pipeline.com> wrote:

> myharddrivedied.com
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> I took the SANS course on hard drive mechanics a few years ago. With tools
> the success rate was about 80% for the class (mine was 0%).
>
> Practice on some drives. But tools (hardware tools) make the job a lot
> easier.
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> *From:* aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Shane Spencer
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 06, 2014 3:52 PM
> *Cc:* AKLUG
> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL]: [aklug] Re: UNDELETE
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> I really dislike how gmail deals with this specific mailing list for reply
> buttons.
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> I've seen a few hacked together. I won't really know how this will turn
> out until I open up the good drive.. I'm really hoping the heads are parked
> and easily out of the way of the platters.. and I'm SUUUUUUUUPER skeptical
> that I will be able to place all the platters back together at their
> original rotation. I have no idea if that's a thing or not. They do
> freely spin on the spindle once you reduce a little pressure on the top
> ring so I'm really curious if the heads align themselves with the platters
> individually.
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> Anybody?
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> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Leif Sawyer <lsawyer@gci.com> wrote:
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> There's been some historical tales of folks building a clean-box using
> plexiglass, hepa filters, and a vacuum cleaner, along with some good
> rubber gloves.
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> That's probably your best bet for opening up drives and swapping platters
> or spindle motors or what-have-you.
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> *From:* aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Shane Spencer
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 05, 2014 11:52 AM
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> *Cc:* AKLUG
> *Subject:* [aklug] Re: UNDELETE
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> Unfortunately that didn't do the trick when I tested it. All signs pointed
> to mechanical. I can try to see if there is a firmware update that may fix
> this situation.
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> I didn't want to lose the bad block and reallocated sector information
> either.
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> Thanks for the bump on this JP. I'll see if a new firmware somehow
> magicalizes it.
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> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:48 AM, JP <jp@jptechnical.com> wrote:
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> Might get away with swapping the boards, I read that the majority of drive
> failures of late are firmware and logic and not mechanical. I have not
> personally done it, but I have seen it done.
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> 907-748-2200
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> JP Technical <http://www.jptechnical.com/>
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> helpdesk@jptechnical.com
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> *From:* aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] *On Behalf
> Of *Shane Spencer
> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 5, 2014 11:43 AM
> *Cc:* AKLUG
> *Subject:* [aklug] Re: UNDELETE
>
>
>
> One disk is failed. It will not read. I'd have to move the platters to a
> working chassis.
>
> Chances are that if I can somehow magically move the platters without
> causing massive damage to the data that the logic board (containing sector
> reallocation information) for it will also work. There's a darn good
> chance the motor or heads are just wonky.
>
>
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> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Greg Schmitz <greg@amipa.org> wrote:
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> On 03/04/2014 07:32 PM, Shane Spencer wrote:
>
> I have a fun one where I have a dead drive that was part of a two disk
> linear block device. It was a dual disk USB drive that I thought was
> mirrored.. alas it was an append of two drives half the size I thought they
> were. Yay.
>
> So here's the deal. I need to dump the contents of one to a disk image..
> then somehow magically move the platters over. Anybody know how feasible
> this is? I'd also like to get data recovered from this funky situation.
>
>
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> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:18 PM, James Zuelow <e5z8652@zuelow.net> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, March 04, 2014 13:37:44 Bill Bouterse wrote:
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> >
> > I have read many, many RTFM and searched endlessly. However I know once
> > one begins to attempt recovery YOU BETTER KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
> > It happen to me over 15 years ago and with the tools at the time I
> > accomplished nothing.
> >
> > Has anyone had a successful recovery of anything similar.?
> >
> > WH (Bill) Bouterse
> > Now Residing in Juneau
>
> Yes,
>
> Trinity Rescue Kit has a couple of utilities that you can use to recover
> deleted files and partitions.
>
> It scans the drive looking for orphaned inodes.
>
> I haven't used a disk in a few years, but I have successfully recovered
> deleted partitions and files from ext2 and ext3.
>
> The newer version of Trinity might help.
>
> James
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>
>
> Shane, perhaps you could image both disks and then trim one to synch up
> with the other? Block sizes and sectors tend to be predictable. Assuming
> of course that the manufacturer didn't add any curve balls to the
> equation. Was dealing with mfg curve balls with a codec somebody on the
> AMIA-L list asked about this weekend. See
> http://spreadys.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/march-networks-mnm4-codec/
>
> ===
>
> ON THE BEACH (Krammer, 1959). Speaking to ...
> Cmdr. Dwight Lionel Towers, USS Sawfish (Gregory Peck):
>
> Moira Davidson (Ava Gardner): [drunk] Nobody can explain it to me..... All
> I want to know is if everybody was so smart why didn't they know what would
> happen?
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