[Novalug] Re: Hard Drive Data Recovery (Greg Faust-

[Greg Faust]

>
> Thanks for all the responses.  Unfortunately the freezer trick didn't
> work.  I left the drive in the freezer overnight and this morning it's still
> clicking.  I don't think the head is stuck because when the drive clicks you
> can feel a vibration that I imagine is the momentum of the head stack
> starting and stopping.  Also, I don't think rsync to a separate partition
> would have saved me because in this case the drive is a total loss and won't
> even show up in bios.  So for this particular type of failure, an rsync to a
> separate partition would not help.  Although, if I could get the drive so
> show up a second copy of my data may or may not come in handy depending on
> if the platter has surface damage where my data is located.  I have used
> OnTrak data recovery in Reston a bunch of time for desktop machines at work
> and they have always recovered the data, but I don't think my data is
> worth $1200-$1700, so I think I'll take my chances with the cheap data
> recovery and see how it goes.
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