[hackpgh-discuss] Re: Data recovery
- From: John Lewis <oflameo2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: hackpgh-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 17:48:28 -0500
Yeah, I forgot to mention ddrescue
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:
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> 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/ 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.
>
>
>
>
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> 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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