[hackpgh-discuss] Re: Data recovery
- From: chadisrad <chadisrad@xxxxxx>
- To: hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 09:51:15 -0500
If you pull the drive, you may be able to read it from an external enclosure. I
would recommend Disk Warrior X. I have a copy I can lend you. It literally is
MAGIC! I wouldn’t recommend anything else.
Let me know if I can help in any other way.
Cheers!
-Chad
> On Mar 5, 2015, at 5:48 PM, John Lewis <oflameo2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yeah, I forgot to mention ddrescue
> https://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnu.org%2Fs%2Fddrescue%2F
>
> <https://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gnu.org%2Fs%2Fddrescue%2F>.
> It skips over bad sectors and copys the data sparsely. You can even pause
> the copy if you started it with a log file.
>
> On 03/05/2015 05:10 PM, Greg Land wrote:
>> Rescuedd is a good friend on failing drives. Sometimes a freezer and a copy
>> of rescue dd gets you pretty far.
>>
>> On Mar 5, 2015 5:07 PM, "Jake S" <jskiba99@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> <mailto:jskiba99@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> I'm not sure if there's anything local or not. If you need to send it out
>> for service I'd recommend http://www.myharddrivedied.com/
>> <http://www.myharddrivedied.com/> That guy has given some cool talks
>> online in the past and I think he was a SANS instructor at one point, and
>> was also recommended by a current SANS forensics instructor.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: justin@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:justin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [hackpgh-discuss] Data recovery
>> Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 16:36:15 -0500
>>
>> One of our employees where I work has an old MacBook Pro. The hard drive is
>> in its death throes; it no longer boots properly, and Disk Utility can't fix
>> it. Wouldn't you know it, there are no backups, his email client was set up
>> to use POP3, and he needs those emails in order to do his work.
>>
>>
>> I'm not particularly knowledgeable when it comes to data recovery, so I'd
>> rather take it to someone who does. Can any of you recommend anybody in the
>> Oakland/Shadyside area?
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Justin Smith
>>
>> GNU/Linux System Administrator
>>
>>
>> "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;
>> nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will
>> not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is
>> full of educated derelicts."
>>
>>
>> -Calvin Coolidge
>>
>
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