Re: recovering from "rm -rf"

[David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>]

PFC wrote:
> 
>> Drive A is a 500 gig striped RAID.  Drive B is a 200 gig IDE drive.  I
>> mv'ed all my data (about 100 gigs) from drive A to drive B.  Drive B
>> then had its power plug fall out (don't ask me how I managed that), I
>> plugged it back in (stupid!) -- there was a spark -- drive B now won't
>> spin up, and drive A is essentially "rm -rf"ed.
> 
> 
>     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.

Seems kind of a waste to buy a whole new drive, if it does end up being
that simple.  I wonder if I couldn't ship this back to the manufacturer
and have them do it?  I'm sure they have extras...