[mythtvnz] Possibly off topic - HDD recovery

[David Shepherd]

On 12/06/2014 6:09 p.m., tortise wrote:
> Would anyone have experience of or recommend who in New Zealand has 
> good expertise in data recovery from a sick HDD, realising a few 
> hundred dollars will likely be required. The recent Seagate HDD in 
> question has about 10 click cycles on power up then spins down...
> Much obliged for any advice or experience that may help.
>
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I'd suggest getting and running Spinrite ($US89 from www.grc.com) on 
it.  If anything is going to recover data on it, that will.  You 
download an .iso, burn a CD or bootable USB and boot it up.  It may take 
a while to do it's work (like 24-48 hrs for 1TB drive) I've had good 
experiences from using it.

Dave