12 Mar
2010
12 Mar
'10
6:46 a.m.
If the drive actually runs and is detectable,
I'd suggest running RTT (RType) on it.
it's very inexpensive, and will recover a host of data from different formats.
I haven't had a drive it couldn't recover from, even my USB flash disk, it got the
data back,
even though the system said it was unformatted.
but the drive has to actually at least run and seen in bios.
I don't recommend spinrite, until at least after you've gotten the data off it.
Dan.
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:27:25 -0600
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
From: jfoust at threedee.com
Subject: Drive recovery
Just my luck! I'm making the final backup copy of my old Mac G3,
and one of the drives dies, and my other backup wasn't.
I take it apart - it's a 20 gig IBM Deskstar DTLA-305020, just
old enough for the (cough) ten-year-rule, and well-known prone to
two modes of failure, click of death and NVRAM failure. I'm hearing
the NVRAM failure sound as shown at:
http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/ibm-deskstar-hard-disk-drive-data-loss.htm
In googling, I saw one reference to someone replacing the 8-pin NVRAM
themselves from a donor drive, but that seems risky to me.
I think I'll send it to Gillware.com, a Madison, WI-based recovery
place. They offer $400-700 Windows recovery but charge a premium
for Mac recovery ($700-$1000) and Linux ($800-1000), with the higher
price for "clean room recovery". (Hmm, I thought bits were bits.)
Any other advice - besides a better backup strategy?
- John
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