Hi, On 08/22/18 19:19, David Young wrote:
If all else fails, and one decides to send a disk for recovery, is the manufacturer the best bet (I see that Seagate will try to recover its own disks for a rather high flat fee), or is there a BSD-friendly service provider?
I also had success by opening the disk top, turning the platters from the center with a spanner, puffing with clean air (not the compressed can, a small hand pump like for photography), remount the disk and have it working for a longer time.
For old stuff, like 40MBytes Quantums, I have even opened the disk, cleaned the platter with alcohol, closed it and work again for a long time (and not lost a sector!!!). But with a 40GByte disk I bet the success rate of such procedure would be less.
Inside the disk there is "just" clean air... So you might have enough luck to be able to read your data off!
Riccardo