Re: recovering from "rm -rf"

[Rudy Zijlstra <rudy@edsons.demon.nl>]

Aaron D. Ball wrote:

> On 05 Aug 2005, at 19:03, David Masover wrote:
>
> [swapping boards on disks]
>
>> Which ones?
>
>
> I believe it was whatever Maxtor IDE disks are inside their 5000DV 
> enclosure, and probably also Western Digital 1200JBs, but I'm not 
> entirely sure.  It's been a few months.
>
>> 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.
>
>
> Well, I'm not sure there's a "worse" in this case.  If you need or can 
> afford to do the strictly right thing (pay several thousand dollars to 
> a data recovery company), by all means do so.  But if you can't afford 
> that, buying a new drive and swapping electronics may work and is 
> certainly much cheaper.
>
>
I've done it with Western Digital disks. They were same type and 
manufactured on consequetive days (1 day apart).

Rudy