Nina wrote:Brought it home, hooked it up and it fried. I thought the first time was bad, but no, this was much worse.

I think I know the answer but I have to ask, what are the odds of any of the data still being intact and recoverable? I have been quoted between $500-1000, with no guarantees of recovery. I would gladly shell out the cash if I thought the data was still there, but I really have my doubts.

So you fried 2 drives from your house? Simply from plugging them in?

Same outlet?

I know it's resource intensive, but if you can get your system to boot at all with the drive connected to the SATA bus, maybe you could try using the data dumper ('dd') to read from the block device assigned to the drive without mounting it -- just to see if you can even read data from it.

BTW, the hard drive in Marsup's enclosure is actually a 320 GB Western Digital Caviar SE.

come on big money no whammy no whammy

ipitcher wrote:I know it's resource intensive, but if you can get your system to boot at all with the drive connected to the SATA bus, maybe you could try using the data dumper ('dd') to read from the block device assigned to the drive without mounting it -- just to see if you can even read data from it.

What's the "Data Dumper"? I've never even heard of such a thing. Is it a drive recovery utility? It sounds kinda disgusting.

You're using Linux, right? Try 'man dd' at a shell prompt.

Hey Chunky Soup: You stole a bunch of music online, and now you're fucked. Chalk it up to karma and move on.

Abductor wrote:Hey Chunky Soup: You stole a bunch of music online, and now you're fucked. Chalk it up to karma and move on.

thanks for the help, fuckass

Not all of it was stolen, I put all my vinyl and CD's into the computer. Also all the music I have recorded, as in bands I was or am in or solo shit I have recorded over the years.
There was plenty I got off soulseek, don't get me wrong but at least half was shit I had purchased or made over the years.

My friend, he swears by this such tool:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpinRite

It is hefty expensive! But even with such software he could not rescue this laptop hard drive. I had tried first with one of the other free tools listed on the page -- i think it was ddrescue. I bet him he could not recover the drive, and I was sad to win this bet.

So perhaps you can try this ddrescue and this time I bet that you can get back your data!

Colonel Panic wrote:Over the past 15 years or so I have lost 3 hard drives (2 Maxtors and an IBM).

Just had a failure of a 250 GB Maxtor drive that wasn't more that 1 1/2 years old. When I would power it up, it would issue the "click of death" and wouldn't mount. I kept trying every few hours and with luck it didn't click, mounted and I quickly copied everything over to a new Lacie drive. Since then it won't mount no matter what I try, including some pricey data recovery software (used on a trial basis luckily).