<div dir="ltr">Hi Reuben,<div><br></div><div>You can try a boot cd such as SystemRescueCd</div><div><a href="http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage">http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage</a></div><div>
<br></div><div>which includes DDREscue</div><div><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html">http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>which tries reading from broken media. It really depends on what got broken in the drive, but I have not used it myself in a long time. It's worth a shot, but obviously a data recovery center will do better, at a much higher price.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For the future, I recommend also rugged equipement. I would go for LaCie equipement, since you can pay extra to get the platinum care warranty extension</div><div><a href="http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10591">http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?id=10591</a></div>
<div>which includes *FREE* data recovery in case of disastrous hardware failure, for a reasonable price. </div><div><br></div><div>I currently use 2 LaCie Rikiki USB 3.0 1 TB drive, for reasons of speed, weight, and convenience, which are constantly in sync (if one fails, the other holds the same data). I keep them in LaCie Tank covers</div>
<div><a href="http://www.lacie.com/uk/company/news/news.htm?id=10578">http://www.lacie.com/uk/company/news/news.htm?id=10578</a></div><div><br></div><div>which I prefer over a drive which is rugged by itself. But LaCie also offers the LaCie Rugged series</div>
<div><a href="http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10564">http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10564</a></div><div>with the mini having a reduced MIL specification.</div><div><br></div><div>If you are concerned more about dust & water than shock, you could go for any Pelican case fitting your equipement</div>
<div><a href="http://pelican.com/">http://pelican.com/</a><br><br>either additionally or instead.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Meikal</div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>
--</div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Meikal Mumin (<a href="http://meikal.de/profile" target="_blank">meikal.de/profile</a>)</div><div><br></div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Daryn McKenny <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daryn@acra.org.au" target="_blank">daryn@acra.org.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="font-size:14px;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;word-wrap:break-word"><div><div><div>Hi Reuben,</div><div><br></div><div>This is who I would recommend as a data recovery centre: <a href="http://www.payam.com.au" target="_blank">http://www.payam.com.au</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>When it comes to hardware the external drive that I use now is from Buffalo <a href="http://www.buffalotech.com/products/portable-hard-drives/ministation/ministation-extreme" target="_blank">http://www.buffalotech.com/products/portable-hard-drives/ministation/ministation-extreme</a> It is a US Military spec. shock resistant unit amongst other things, of course not to say that it is bullet proof (I am not expecting you to have to deal with bullets anyway), but never less is far better than the home designed go-flex WD and similar seagate products which are not that crash hot bumping them around.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I have only ever used data recovery software in a windows environment and that was a while ago so can't really comment on that part.</div><div><br></div><div>Good Luck.</div><div><div><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium"><font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><b><br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [RNLD] data recovery options<br></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><div>
Dear RNLD subscribers,<br><br>
You've probably heard this story before, but here comes another cautionary tale about the virtues of constant data back up while in the field, and the pitfalls of external drives which can fail at any moment it seems, no matter how big or expensive or new they
are.
<div><br></div><div>I have potentially lost about 2 months of PhD fieldwork recordings that I had not got around to backing up, stored on an external USB hard drive which has failed or become corrupted (Seagate GoFlex Free Agent, less than 6 months old). I took the drive
to the local computer shop in Darwin and they tried to recover the data using some of their software programs but were unsuccessful. Now I am looking at sending the drive to data recovery specialists in Sydney or Melbourne and I wondered if anyone has any
recommendations as to whom I might sent it to? <br><br>
Also, has anyone tried recovering data on their own before using programs like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDisk" target="_blank">
TestDisk</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoRec" target="_blank">PhotoRec</a>? An <a href="http://www.rnld.org/recovering_files" target="_blank">
earlier thread</a> suggested a program called 'Back2Life' but it doesn't appear to support EXFAT formatted drives. I am looking at recovering MTS, wav, mp3, mp4, and mov files which were all stored on the drive. I am using a Mac OSX 10.6.8, which I originally
used to format the drive to EXFAT so that it could be used for both Mac and PC. One day it was working and the next day I plugged it in on the same machine to find that 'the disk you inserted was not readable by this computer'. I have tried different USB cables
and different machines, but no luck reading the partition.
<div><br></div><div>Any considerations or suggestions much appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Reuben.<br>
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Reuben Brown<br><br>
PhD Candidate<br>
The University of Sydney<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div>
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