[Blackpool] HDD data recovery

@surlydev surly at surlydev.net
Fri Feb 5 11:58:51 UTC 2016


I have spinrite and was going to suggest it but James' email made it sound like the disk was rattling or worse.

How bad is it James?


-----Original Message-----
From: "Arthur Garlick" <arthur_garlick at hotmail.com>
Sent: ‎05/‎02/‎2016 09:44
To: "James Page" <jmsp.1983 at gmail.com>; "Mike Hull" <blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [Blackpool] HDD data recovery

I listen to the Security Now podcast https://twit.tv/episodes?filter[shows]=1636 which has Steve Gibson on it (proper tin foil hat guy, hoot to listen to when he speaks about Internet of Things especially) his product is this: https://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm he makes some big claims and I've been sceptical but having listened to him talk for years, he knows his stuff and I'd give it a try if I had a disk failure.  But not for a total mechanical issue as you said. 


I will be at the makerspace tomorrow, coding has started on the big robot and I have a little robot that I am going to finish.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35442969
Listening to Bill Gates desert island disks, right now, what a guy - who has done more for humanity... Gates or Torvalds?  





> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 18:16:26 +0000
> From: jmsp.1983 at gmail.com
> To: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: [Blackpool] HDD data recovery
> 
> Don't suppose any of you can recommend a local/regional specialist who
> deals in HDD data recovery, can you? I know there are plenty out there, but
> I don't know which are reputable and affordable (big emphasis on the
> latter). It's a mechanical issue, so software recovery is out of the window.
> 
> 
> PS - don't buy Western Digital!
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> James
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