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danzor

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

Posted: November 22nd, 2011, 10:16

Joined: November 22nd, 2011, 10:08
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Location: England

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.

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loki

Post subject: Re: if a PCB board swap is sucessfull what do you do next?

Posted: November 22nd, 2011, 10:26

Joined: July 7th, 2010, 4:45
Posts: 924
Location: UK

2 ways you can go:

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

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danzor

Post subject: Re: if a PCB board swap is sucessfull what do you do next?

Posted: November 22nd, 2011, 10:27

Joined: November 22nd, 2011, 10:08
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Location: England

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

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ici_lemmy

Post subject: Re: if a PCB board swap is sucessfull what do you do next?

Posted: November 22nd, 2011, 10:29

Joined: May 3rd, 2011, 9:52
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Location: France

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

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ici_lemmy

Post subject: Re: if a PCB board swap is sucessfull what do you do next?

Posted: November 22nd, 2011, 10:30

Joined: May 3rd, 2011, 9:52
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Location: France

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What is a good imaging program?

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

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hddguy

Post subject: Re: if a PCB board swap is sucessfull what do you do next?

Posted: November 22nd, 2011, 12:21

Joined: November 9th, 2006, 15:15
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danzor wrote:

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.... :lol:

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HDD Spaz

Post subject: Re: if a PCB board swap is sucessfull what do you do next?

Posted: November 22nd, 2011, 16:38

Joined: October 13th, 2008, 7:29
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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.

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northwind

Post subject: Re: if a PCB board swap is sucessfull what do you do next?

Posted: November 22nd, 2011, 18:06

Joined: January 28th, 2009, 10:54
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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.

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