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From: joecipale on 15 Apr 2007 00:04
Hello everyone,

Sorry for the newsgroup spam, but I am in a bit of a pickle.

I lost my primary HDD last night before my weekly backup. It just locked
up... hard. When I attemtped to reboot, all I got was the sickening
'clunk...clunk... clunk' which told me I was in deep doodoo.

Is there a way I can recover my data that was lost? I thought I could just
add/reinstall my OS on my new HDD, reinstall my old clunky HDD, mount it and
then copy the data to a recovery directory before sending the old drive off
to silicon heaven.

That trick doesnt seem to work. Any suggestions? You can email me directly.

Thank you,

Joe Cipale


From: Eddie on 15 Apr 2007 06:41
perhaps you could try a program like "spinrite"

altough my expierience with "clunking" disks is that they're unuseable most
of the time.

Good luck!

Edddie.


"joecipale" <joec(a)aracnet.com> schreef in bericht
news:evs4cf013mv(a)enews1.newsguy.com...
> Hello everyone,
>
> Sorry for the newsgroup spam, but I am in a bit of a pickle.
>
> I lost my primary HDD last night before my weekly backup. It just locked
> up... hard. When I attemtped to reboot, all I got was the sickening
> 'clunk...clunk... clunk' which told me I was in deep doodoo.
>
> Is there a way I can recover my data that was lost? I thought I could just
> add/reinstall my OS on my new HDD, reinstall my old clunky HDD, mount it
> and
> then copy the data to a recovery directory before sending the old drive
> off
> to silicon heaven.
>
> That trick doesnt seem to work. Any suggestions? You can email me
> directly.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Joe Cipale
>
>


From: Unruh on 15 Apr 2007 12:20
"joecipale" <joec(a)aracnet.com> writes:

>Hello everyone,

>Sorry for the newsgroup spam, but I am in a bit of a pickle.

>I lost my primary HDD last night before my weekly backup. It just locked
>up... hard. When I attemtped to reboot, all I got was the sickening
>'clunk...clunk... clunk' which told me I was in deep doodoo.

>Is there a way I can recover my data that was lost? I thought I could just
>add/reinstall my OS on my new HDD, reinstall my old clunky HDD, mount it and
>then copy the data to a recovery directory before sending the old drive off
>to silicon heaven.

>That trick doesnt seem to work. Any suggestions? You can email me directly.

If you really heard cluck...clunk then your hard drive has physical
problems. There is no way of you being able to recover anything.
You may be able to send it out to a data recovery shop who will disassemble
the drive and try putting the platters into a new drive. If that does not
work they might be able to use even more sophisticated techniques for
recovering data ( costing you from $1000 per drive to $100 per byte)
Exactly how much is the data worth to you?
At least you have learned that you put in a second hard drive and at least
copy everything from the first to the second every night ( or every hour).

>Thank you,

>Joe Cipale


From: CWO4 Dave Mann on 15 Apr 2007 12:50
Unruh wrote:
> "joecipale" <joec(a)aracnet.com> writes:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>
>> Sorry for the newsgroup spam, but I am in a bit of a pickle.
>
>> I lost my primary HDD last night before my weekly backup. It just locked
>> up... hard. When I attemtped to reboot, all I got was the sickening
>> 'clunk...clunk... clunk' which told me I was in deep doodoo.
>
>> Is there a way I can recover my data that was lost? I thought I could just
>> add/reinstall my OS on my new HDD, reinstall my old clunky HDD, mount it and
>> then copy the data to a recovery directory before sending the old drive off
>> to silicon heaven.
>
>> That trick doesnt seem to work. Any suggestions? You can email me directly.
>
> If you really heard cluck...clunk then your hard drive has physical
> problems. There is no way of you being able to recover anything.
> You may be able to send it out to a data recovery shop who will disassemble
> the drive and try putting the platters into a new drive. If that does not
> work they might be able to use even more sophisticated techniques for
> recovering data ( costing you from $1000 per drive to $100 per byte)
> Exactly how much is the data worth to you?
> At least you have learned that you put in a second hard drive and at least
> copy everything from the first to the second every night ( or every hour).
>
>> Thank you,
>
>> Joe Cipale
>
>


If you are truly desperate you could do the absolutely last resort as
described some time ago in (I think) Maximum Linux Magazine -- or maybe
Maximum PC).

You set up your own mini-cleanroom using plastic drop cloth and duct
tape and a small HEPA vacuum cleaner to pressurize the area. You buy an
identical HD and then place the new HD next to the old drive on the
table. You dress in one of those clean suits you can get from Home
Depot for $10 and use a head covering and dust mask. You then
disassemble both drives, moving the bad platters into the new machine.

The article admits that it "most likely won't work" but at least you
will have tried the ultimate. And, I suppose gained some great learning
experience.

As for me, I have The Mighty Wurlitzer backed up on two separate SATA
drives every 12 hours. Overkill of course, but it makes me feel good.

Cheers,
Dave

From: Moe Trin on 15 Apr 2007 15:20
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup linux.redhat, in article
<evs4cf013mv(a)enews1.newsguy.com>, joecipale wrote:

>Sorry for the newsgroup spam, but I am in a bit of a pickle.

None the less, it would be well to set a "Followup-To:" header as I have
done here.

>I lost my primary HDD last night before my weekly backup. It just locked
>up... hard. When I attemtped to reboot, all I got was the sickening
>'clunk...clunk... clunk' which told me I was in deep doodoo.

Wonderful. Had the drive _been_ running and died? Or is this a case
where you booted, and the drive failed for some reason? Can you tell
if the drive is spinning? (Could this be a "stiction" problem?) What
kind of drive (make/model)?

>Is there a way I can recover my data that was lost? I thought I could
>just add/reinstall my OS on my new HDD, reinstall my old clunky HDD,
>mount it and then copy the data to a recovery directory before sending
>the old drive off to silicon heaven.
>
>That trick doesnt seem to work.

Ontrack disk recovery www.ontrack.com/ www.ontrack.de/
www.ontrack.co.uk/ do a google search, and get thousands of hits.

Warning: NOT CHEAP

>Any suggestions? You can email me directly.

Post here - read here. Sorry, mail has been off for years.

Old guy
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