if a PCB board swap is sucessfull what do you do next?

[danzor]

if your lucky enough for a PCB swap to work and you can access your data what do you do next before the hard drive fails again. Should I just copy everything or use a recovery program?

thanks.

[loki]

2 ways you can go:

1: Copy off the important data first
2: Image the drive

[danzor]

okay thank you very much.
What is a good imaging program?

[ici_lemmy]

IMHO : always choose to image the drive (or important part the the drive) with good tool/software and then recover files

[ici_lemmy]

What is a good imaging program?

A program that can handle bad sectors such as dd_rescue if you're looking for something free.

[hddguy]

if your lucky enough for a PCB swap to work and you can access your data what do you do next before the hard drive fails again.

Wasnt sure if this was even a real question....

[HDD Spaz]

if its a case of DIY, I would save your critical files first. You may try to image and it fail at 60%, you might not have the data you need.

[northwind]

Depends on how many are those "critical" files. If it is a case with a 500GB drive and client wants to recover a lot of 300GB of video files, then i'd image the disk. If they only want an sql database which is usually a few GB, i would just copy these somewhere safe and then image the rest.