Recoverable?

[Kaiser]

This is a drive we had in the other day.

[craig6928]

you would had thought when it started to rip up the platters
the person should had turned it off right away.

did they think the noise was normal when they heared it scraping

send it to ontrack i bet you they could recovery if for a nice fee NOT

[apprent]

This case of a disk with broken platter and water damage from flood:



has supposedly had its data recovered (see http://www.dtidata.com/resourcecenter/2 ... revisited/ )

Can this recovery claim be real and if so, what methods could have been used?

[rchadwick]

There are many ways to do a recovery like this

1) Ask for the customer's backup, copy it to a drive, and give it to them.
2) Spend some time with EMule, copy data to a drive, and say 'Here's your Porn'.
3) Send it to Ontrack or Drivesavers
4) Use Salvation's IBM tool

And the list goes on.....

[quasimodo]

Numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all good

I use demolecularization process and molecular restructuring for the difficult cases

[Mr Wolf]

Numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 are all good

I use demolecularization process and molecular restructuring for the difficult cases

Come again?

[thatdellguy]

Its a secret process only know to William Shatner and Patrick Stewart.

[Mr Wolf]

I see!
Hey, I was thinking: doesn't it work the old trick to give a big hit to the hard disk, you know, as when the TV doesn't work, or the car doesn't start?
I think the hard disk will return to work, for sure!

Chuck Norris would do that way!
But Chuck Norris doesn't need a hard disk: he can store an infinity amount of files in his brain!

AH!AH!AH!