[Cialug] Death of a Hard Drive...

[Josh More]

True, but if the board allows the drive to work, you can make a dd copy and
then run recovery tools on the image.  You might not get ALL the data, but
you'd have more than none.

-Josh

On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley
<daniel.ramaley at drake.edu>wrote:

> On 2011-10-07 at 08:33:04, jrnosee wrote:
> >Specific model (WD800XX-XXXXXX or whatever it is), controller board
> >model and revision...?????
>
> Everything i've read about doing a controller board transplant says you
> need the exact model and revision. And even then it might not work
> because on some drives the bad sectors map is stored on the controller
> board, and if you switch boards they'll obviously have a different idea
> of what sectors on the disks are bad.
>
> Good luck. A data recovery service might be the best bet, though it
> certainly wouldn't be the cheapest route.
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