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Originally Posted by kenw  maybe a smidgen, but 30 years in the electronics manufacturing bidness says reseat all connections 1st without changing ANY hardware.
a real computer tech would do this intuitively..... many times, fancier backups and repairs really haven't done anything but reseat (by disconnecting and reattaching) connectors.
The novice repairperson thinks that whatever they did fixed it, the expert knows that the reseating may have in fact be all that was needed. |
I hate to be difficult, but 26+ years working with PCs says that reseating may not fix it. If you boot the drive, or use an OS to access the drive without FIRST making a bit image, you may further damage the file system and cause it to be unrecoverable. That is exactly why they make bit copy devices that most law enforcement and data recovery specialists use to ensure that data is captured BEFORE anything can change.
Now, once the image is made, you are correct, reseat, replace cable, test in other machine to eliminate the possibility of a controller error (hardware or software), attempt FS repair, attempt forced recovery, then last resort, send for clean room recovery.
One point. I am treating this as a "I must get data off this drive" instead of a "it sure would be nice to get data off this drive" situation. If the data was not irreplaceable or important, then I may try reseating first.
The novice repair person thinks that whatever they did fixed it, the expert knows what steps to take in what order to maximize the chance of data recovery.
Allan (Who at this moment is recovering a RAID5 array on the primary administration data server of a school district)
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