maximus wrote:
Spildit wrote:
As alternative send the drive to someone with more experienece for data recovery.....
+1, this is outside of the possible scope of what the OP can accomplish DIY. If the data is that important, get professional recovery. Data recovery firms have privacy policies. If your work is just controversial, you should not need to worry about the recovery. As @spildit stated earlier, if it doesn't contain something as volatile as child porn, you should have no issues. If you have gravely illegal things on it and are worried about being discovered, then maybe we shouldn't be helping you anyway.
Just about any thing is possible if one puts their mind to it. I'm the living example. I was writing drivers for generic mice in ASM in 11th grade, msDOS TSRs that snagged the school network admin password
, and those skills helped land me a job doing functional brain imaging after college. I like challenges. I just need to keep reading a bit on this topic.The solution might be right around the corner for me and looks like it could be, or I may determine the only method is to try to have the PC3000 type interface used as a pass through for recovery. I'm less worried about privacy than I am about having to track down legal filings, scan them into adobe, convert them to text, re-enter and reformat legal briefs. I just finished a 24 page one that took 3-4 days of work and my carpel tunnel is acting up. But that's still less than having to re-type from scratch. Plus there's video evidence on there of a unlawful traffic stop. I'm not into any porn and kiddy porn people should get torched alive just like pedophiles, but not on the weak standards DAs have for pretty much all crimes so they rack up wins (don't torch the innocent). Porn is messing up the population at large by creating easy access to something that floods the dopamine circuits in the brain. It's bad news, especially for people with low self control. It even lowers their instincts to be closer to that of an animal which is readily manipulable by stimulus-response Pavlovian conditioning. Any way, not trying to look down my nose at others, just look out for people who don't necessarily see the long term harm with something that may seem benign. How bout them cigarettes? Cancer....who would have known, right?
Persuasion is an interesting thing. But like I've said earlier I need to reduce the likelihood of potential permanent loss by exhausting my options before trusting that said drive could make it from point A to B without any problems. Neither I nor you all have any control over the supremely competent people hired for postal transport. I'm sure they'd never throw any thing labeled fragile.
Time to call it a night. I'll be back at this soon enough. Thanks for all the responses. I am starting to think it's possible the ROM is damaged but gotta do more reading and testing...