[TriLUG] Drive recovery services

[Roger Broseus]

Think about photorec. (It's not just for photos.) I ran it overnight on a 1 TB drive in an external enclosure and recovered files for a friend. It would likely run faster hooked up internally. It does not write to the disk being recovered so you need a disk/partition large enough to receive recovered data.
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Roger Broseus
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On October 13, 2014 11:27:11 AM EDT, Wes Garrison <wes at xitechusa.com> wrote:
>Thanks Matt.  I tried SpinRite and ended up asking for a refund.
>
>Steve Gibson hasn't updated the program in 10 years (he's been talking
>about "version 6.1" for at least 4 years).
>
>It doesn't play well with > 2TiB drives.  It only seems to recognize
>the
>first 801GiB of the disk, which seems consistent with a 32-bit
>addressing
>problem.  32-bits can address 2.2Tib.  3Tib - 2.2Tib = ~801Gib.
>
>If you have any tricks to get it to work with large drives, I'd be open
>to
>them.
>
>On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Matt Whitlow <
>matt.church.whitlow at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
>>
>> You have to pull the drives out of the raid controller and run it in
>a
>> separate machine, the controller doesn't give low enough access to
>the
>> drive. Spin-rite has recoved drives for me in the past start with a
>level
>> 2.
>> On Oct 13, 2014 10:45 AM, "Wes Garrison" <wes at xitechusa.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I just had 3 simultaneous failures on my ZFS pool with raidz2. (2
>> failures
>> > = OK, 3=bad.)
>> >
>> > Can anyone recommend a good drive recovery service (that's less
>than
>> > $1000).
>> >
>> > 1 of the disk developed 60,000 bad sectors in a 4 week period since
>the
>> > last time I checked it and it had 0.
>> >
>> > However, the other 2 both had 0 bad sectors and then stopped being
>> > accessible with no warning.
>> >
>> > This makes me believe the data is still there on these 2 drives.
>> >
>> > I think if I can get a sector-by-sector copy of one of them, I can
>> resilver
>> > (rebuild) my array.
>> >
>> > What do you folks think?
>> >
>> > -Wes
>> >
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