Re: NetBSD-friendly HDD recovery?

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:54:41AM -0600, David Young wrote:
> 
> I want to avoid paying a steep price to a service that scans the
> medium and, finding no FAT/NTFS/HFS+/APFS volume on it, declares it
> unrecoverable when, in actual fact, every bit is intact.  Is there a
> service that I can trust my NetBSD disk to that has a reasonable fee
> structure?
> 

Perhaps you can find one that will provide a binary blob of this disk contents so
you can loop mount the file and recover stuff.  As for cost I think the attitude of
the data recovery places is that they have you by the short and curlies so they can
charge what they like, I know that recovery can be complex and challenging but the
pricing does seem excessive.

If you have the same model drive you could take the electronics board off a working
drive and put it on the dead one - I have done that in the past to good effect.

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