[mdlug] Some odd experience recovering NTFS drive

[Garry Stahl]

David McMillan wrote:
> 	Thanks to everyone for their feedback, but I think it's *really* toast 
> now.  It had hit about 60% on the ddrescue run when suddenly the drive 
> (which was sitting on the desk next to me) *jumped* about an inch and 
> started *shrieking*.  I guess the platter bearing went from "rattling" 
> to "seized" and all that inertia dumped into the frame.
> 	Fortunately there isn't anything terribly critical on the drive to 
> recover, but I was hoping to be able to clone it off before it died. 
> Now I'll have to dig up an XP install disk for it....
>
> Michael S. Mikowski wrote:
>   


Dig a hole dude.


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