[NCLUG] dead drive

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 08:38:05PM -0600, mike cullerton wrote:
>  any ideas to try? do i have any chance of getting data off the drive?

Is the drive spinning up?  Sometimes older drives will fail to spin up, and
whacking them can cause them to spin up and run for a while...

If you don't have backups and want the data off, you might try a hard drive
recovery place.  We had tried one of the big ones a few years ago to have
them pull data off a DDS tape in which a full backup had been overwritten
by an incremental.  They were kind of confused, but eventually were able to
recover the data.  If you don't select one of the "urgent" options, it can
even be somewhat inexpensive, costing only several hundred dollars...

Sean
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