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It might help to point out the exact flaw. It's probably too much to hope that it still spins up but just has a broken partition table, right? ;-) (I have, per
by JoachimSchipper 13y ago
It might help to point out the exact flaw. It's probably too much to hope that it still spins up but just has a broken partition table, right? ;-)
(I have, personally, reconstructed a disk that got newfs'ed by typo; the other disk crash I've witnessed ended in "well, turns out we didn't actually need that data". I have no recommendations for "proper" recovery firms; sorry.)
- ColinWright 13y agoSorry, I thought it was clear from saying "scrambled" rather than "fried." It does still spin up. However, reading from /dev/hdX doesn't work, it won't mount, and (obviously) doesn't boot. Not clear what's died, and now with a recovery service.
- JoachimSchipper 13y agoBest wishes!