I want to find a hard drive to start my experiment with ddrescure to recover data from my failed 1TB hard drive. ("beep, beep" before it failed last year)
I had LVM on the hard drive, and ext4 filesystems on top of it. Is it still possible to recover data from it?
@Tim Depends a lot. What ever you do never ever start it up until you have your setup ready. You might only get one chance if any.
Also make sure you take notice of anything - sounds, etc.
You could do a visual check of the PCB before anything as well, - in case any component has burned. Else you'll need some equipment for further tests.
If you have money to waste you always have things like this :P https://rapidspar.com/index.html
But then a pro recovery would likely be better ...
If you are able to get hold of a donor PCB that could be worth a check if it show symptoms like the one at the bottom here. Example of PCB replacement: hddzone.com/conditions.html
In short though - if important data, do not even try to start it up, send it to repair.
> never ever start it up until you have your setup ready. You might only get one chance if any.
What do "start it up" and "setup" mean? (I have actually tried to connect the failed hard drive to a computer, via an interface adapter, and to copy files out of it, but only could copy 2/3 files out)
> You could do a visual check of the PCB before anything as well, - in case any component has burned. Else you'll need some equipment for further tests.
> If you have money to waste you always have things like this :P rapidspar.com/index.html But then a pro recovery would likely be better ... > If important data, do not even try to start it up, send it to repair.
Is rapidspar not a pro recovery? What pro recovery do you recommend? Where to send it to repair?
Cables, spare drive, software, ... there is software that are made to create full images of disks in a recovery setting. I.e. dd or the like would simply copy entire disk if possible. Other software try to read sections by section and can leave holes where it can not read etc. It is made for recovery.
Depends on where you live. You'll simply have top search around the web. There are companies that specialize in recovery, who can open up disks and replace components etc.
It tends to be rather expensive though. Easy $1000+
If it is mechanical failure one have to open it up and replace parts. And then one need a clean room + parts + equipment.
IIRC Linus did a vid on Rapid once, for what ever that is worth.
There are others that have some nice repair vids (people that do it as a job, and make some videos for fun).
@Tim IDK, ask around, take some phone calls, search the web, etc. Or perhaps someone comes on here later, or perhaps at Superuser, Serverfault, IRC, ... Craigslist :P, yellow-pages, ask at some university, ...
If in NYC you always have that Hunter Biden shop lol, but not sure if he's in business.
