<div dir="ltr">I have used the same trick with success at least once, it working does depend on the type of failure but yours sounds like the type that would work, in my case I think I even mounted the partitions and just copied the data..... (rsync iirc)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-12-22 12:26 GMT+02:00 Amos Shapira <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amos.shapira@gmail.com" target="_blank">amos.shapira@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I once helped a friend in a similar situation (family photos and documents on a dying disk without backups).<div><br></div><div>I followed broadly the following procedure:</div><div>1. Put the disk in an airtight plastic bag (reason - to avoid humidity getting in during the following steps).</div><div>2. Put in the freezer for an hour.</div><div>3. Remove from freezer and leave inside the bag for a few minutes (again - to minimise risk of condensation).</div><div>4. remove from the bag, make sure no condensation builds up on it, wrap in a kitchen towel (it was Sydney summer, so high temps and humid, though not like Tel-Aviv summer). The idea was to keep any humidity away.</div><div>4. Put it on a block of icepack, and another icepack on top of it.</div><div>5. Connect it to a comp through an external USB box</div><div>6. GNU ddrescue (don't confuse with the non-GNU implementation). It can keep track of where it got to in a previous run so you can pick up from there.</div><div>7. Rinse, repeat.</div><div><br></div><div>It took 2-3 weeks of repeating this process but I managed to save all his data (I think it was half a tera or so) except a tiny part (single-digit kilobytes, I think).</div><div><br></div><div>The extra twist was that it was a Mac HFS file system and he wanted the data accessible to Windows - Only Linux could be used to support both filesystem formats :)</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 December 2014 at 16:15, Alon Barzilai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alon@skylinesoft.com" target="_blank">alon@skylinesoft.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi,<br>
<br>
there is tic tac ( <a href="http://www.tictac.co.il" target="_blank">http://www.tictac.co.il</a> ) <br>
and recover (<a href="http://recover.co.il" target="_blank">http://recover.co.il</a>)<br>
<br>
I used them both in the past. and they both offered good service,
but this service is not cheap.<br>
tic tac ares in this field for longer time, but as I recall their
price is higher than recover.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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Alon.</font></span><div><div><br>
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<div>On 12/21/2014 11:46 PM, Geoff Shang
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<blockquote type="cite">Hi,
<br>
<br>
We have a 500 GB external USB drive that's about 5 or so years old
(can't remember exactly when we got it). It's now not spinning up
propperly and we figure its days are numbered.
<br>
<br>
Much of what is on it has not been backed up anywhere else (yes, I
know).
<br>
<br>
Is there somewhere I can take/send it to see if anything can be
salvaged?
<br>
<br>
Geoff.
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