From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: recovering from "rm -rf" Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 18:03:04 -0500 Message-ID: <42F3F028.2080207@slaphack.com> References: <42F3A08A.30102@planet.nl> <42F3A16D.6090306@namesys.com> <42F3C73B.9040808@slaphack.com> <42F3D760.7090008@slaphack.com> <42F3DDA2.6070204@bdi.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: <42F3DDA2.6070204@bdi.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "Aaron D. Ball" Cc: PFC , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Aaron D. Ball wrote: > 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. Which ones? My drive is a Western Digital, and they strongly advise against this procedure, becaues different drives (even of the same model number) may have different firmware versions, and this may make things worse.