From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: recovering from "rm -rf" Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:28:01 -0500 Message-ID: <42F3E7F1.1030205@slaphack.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" To: PFC Cc: michael chang , reiserfs-list@namesys.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...