[ale] Drive recovery lab

[Jim Kinney]

ouch!

First trick I'd try before looking at "put the platter in a clean room
recovery tool" is to find another drive just like (EXACT same model) it
that works and swap controller boards. I have recovered a failed RAID5
array as 2 drives of the 3 died and I used the remaining working drive
controller board to rescue all data from the dead two (only worked because
i broke my rule of NEVER by all drives on the new array from the same maker
and vender - for once it saved my tail).


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com> wrote:

> I have a drive that belongs to a company we help out sometimes. It spins
> up and then shuts down after a few seconds upon boot. Does anyone recommend
> a good drive recovery lab? I know someone on the list mentioned working for
> one. If you have positive personal experience, that would be terrific. If
> you have good word-of-mouth recommendations, that'd be good too. I tried
> SpinRite, but it didn't see the drive (it had already spun down by the time
> SpinRite started).
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
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