Re: restoring data from a hw-defective reiserfs 3.6 disk?

["daniel.poelzleithner" <poelzi@poelzi.org>]

Redeeman wrote:
> there is a way you can do something yourself, but ONLY try if you dont
> find some experts.
> 
> i have done this before.
> 
> you buy an hd equally to the one that died, and then you open them
> CAREFULLY, and switch the plates with data, but be extremely careful,
> and then it should work if it was the motor or the print itself.
> 

Ouuchh :)

Find an fried with a cleanroom and do it there.

You have to find a harddisk with the same Firmware Version as yours. 
Often the internal strucutre changes and another firmware can't read the 
plates. When the Harddisk is produced in the same month, the chances are 
good.

Check the power supply to the harddisk, many problems can be solved with 
contact spray.

Check the electronics, maybe you have to remove it for the backside, 
maybe you see some defect components or conducting paths. Then you can 
use only the electronic part of another hd with the same firmware.

Another tip is to your hd into a plastik bag and then into a fridge (not 
the ice box). Sometimes the motor stuck and gets free when he shrinks by 
the coolness.

Good luck
  daniel

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