From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Aaron D. Ball" Subject: Re: recovering from "rm -rf" Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:44:02 -0400 Message-ID: <42F3DDA2.6070204@bdi.com> References: <42F3A08A.30102@planet.nl> <42F3A16D.6090306@namesys.com> <42F3C73B.9040808@slaphack.com> <42F3D760.7090008@slaphack.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: PFC Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com PFC wrote: > You probably fried the electronics... if the heads are still OK, > you could recover your data by exchanging the PCB from a brand new > drive, with the fried PCB of the old drive. You need some electronics > skillz, but a friend of mine did this (it was an adventure, as he had > to find the same drive as he had, from ebay, etc) and it worked for > him... if something that's not on the PCB is dead, well, you need a > recovery company. I have actually done this a couple of times with modern drives and found it shockingly easy. You buy an identical drive, unscrew the board, and screw the other board in, and it just works. The contacts are little springs that connect correctly as long as the board is screwed on properly.