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USB Memory Stick Recovery
From: fixrman
20 Mar 2015 17:04
To: CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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Unfortunately, my sentiments are the same.
(fail)
Why perform a backup if I can have another pint and not?
(bounce)
EDITED: 20 Mar 2015 17:05 by FIXRMAN
From: Chris (CHRISSS)
30 Mar 2015 23:12
To: ALL
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Same thing but hard drive recovery. I'm not sure it's going to be possible though. My daughter pulled my parents' laptop off the cabinet and it looks like it damaged the HDD. She said it was wroking fine for a bit but after a while it rebooted, then said drive error at post.
My usual GetDataBack can't do anything with it. It recognises the drive but just hangs while Windows is trying to make its mind up.
So, anything else I can try?
From: koswix
30 Mar 2015 23:36
To: Chris (CHRISSS)
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Freezer?
From: Chris (CHRISSS)
30 Mar 2015 23:41
To: koswix
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Think I might try that. It worked once years ago.
I booted the laptop from a Linux USB drive and it can mount the partition as read-only but doesn't show any contents.
From: koswix
30 Mar 2015 23:50
To: Chris (CHRISSS)
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Never tried it, but sounds like it's dead anyway so no harm in giving it a shot.
From: Chris (CHRISSS)
31 Mar 2015 00:07
To: koswix
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I'm pretty sure it did work. Had a HDD that couldn't be read in Windows, froze it and when I took it out of the freezer it worked for a little while, long enough to get some data off.
It does look like the drive is dead unfortunately. Nothing backed up from it, years of stuff on there
:S
Worth a shot at putting it in the freezer.
From: Chris (CHRISSS)
31 Mar 2015 01:42
To: ALL
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Wonderful. I can access the recovery partition fine but the rest just doesn't seem to work
:(
From: Chris (CHRISSS)
31 Mar 2015 07:35
To: ALL
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Freezer didn't help. Same thing this morning. Maybe it wasn't in there long enough. More likely it's DEAD.
From: ANT_THOMAS
31 Mar 2015 08:53
To: Chris (CHRISSS)
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But the recovery partition still works?
dd the whole device to an image.
From: Chris (CHRISSS)
31 Mar 2015 08:59
To: ANT_THOMAS
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Seems to. I could access the files in the recovery partition from Linux. The other partition showed the size and space used but couldn't shoe any contents.
Worth a try making an image. I'll try and find a HDD large enough when I get home and see if it will work.