[Novalug] data recovery?

Joshua Ellsworth jrellsworth@gmail.com
Mon Dec 23 13:53:51 EST 2013


I recommend that all techie-types obtain something like this:

http://www.amazon.com/NewerTech-USB-Universal-Drive-Adapter/dp/B00506QPDU

It's a solution to connect just about any hard drive temporarily via usb.

Josh

On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, greg pryzby <greg@pryzby.org> wrote:
> 1) Do the failing computers have NICs?
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> You *MIGHT* be able to boot from a live USB (linux) image, mount the
> drive and look at it. If there is something to recover, copy it to a
> 2nd usb drive (thumb or otherwise).OR if you can connect via  NIC to
> another computer, ssh the data.
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> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Ed James <edward.james@gmail.com> wrote:
>> That makes no sense to me, compared to pulling out the HD from
>> the old PC, installing it as a secondary HD in another PC, "mounting"
>> the drive onto your normal file system, and then doing the copy-over thing.
>> Last time I did that, it was a one-shot thing, so I just removed the side of
>> the newer PC, put the old HD on a pile of books and ran the cables (data
>> and power) to the old HD.
>>
>> The laptop issue is a bit different.  My wife used an external drive
>> enclosure for her laptop HD to "mount" it onto a newer laptop.
>>
>> Ed James
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>> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Beartooth <beartooth@beartooth.info> wrote:
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>>>       ...
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>>>         At any rate, he seemed to believe I need only connect the
>>> old machine (which never finishes booting) to another, and copy
>>> the contents of the hard drive; he didn't say how to connect, and
>>> I figured I'd better come here and ask.
>>> ...
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