Hard Disk Failure

[Bill McGonigle]

On Feb 13, 2006, at 21:32, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:

> Can anyone with experience, suggestions in this regard let me know 
> what I
> might suggest to pass on to him?  Especially price-wise and 
> expectations?

My info is at least a year out of date, but DriveSavers was ~$2400 for 
an 8GB laptop drive, they sent back the requested subset of data on DVD 
to avoid buying a new hard drive from them, and they got back the data 
that didn't have bad sectors.

I've been running dd_rhelp on a client's very important drive in lieu 
of DriveSavers for about a month.  It's down to about 2MB of bad 
sectors - unfortunately those seem to be very important sectors as the 
drive image still won't mount or fsck without them.  So it keeps trying 
(again and again and again and again) until the sector reads.  There 
may be completely unrecoverable sectors but it hasn't hit that wall 
yet.

Anybody here have experience with the Autopsy or Sleuth tookits on 
corrupted ext3 partitions?

-Bill

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