Today an important (no backup of course) 46 GB IBM Deskstar IDE disk crashed. It has a FreeBSD 4.8 on it with important data and programs. Yes, shame on me that I didn't care about doing backups on it but it has happened.
I evend tend to expend the bucks to get it recovered but a little prediagnosis I would not to be left untried.
The disk boots into FreeBSD but already at power on time the disk does seek retries or some recalibration noise.
The question is what else can I do to recover the data. Put it in the icebox? Turn the computer upside down?
Any ideas would be welcome.
I thought of getting a second identical disk to exchange electronics only but since it partially functions it looks more like surface corruption, doesn't it?
Its most likely the dreaded "deathstar syndrome" and yes that means the magnetic surface of the platters is worn thin or in some of the worse cases completely worn off..
To put it short, there isn't much hope for your data :(
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