Look at this crispy critter that showed up:
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Seagate Crispy Critter
- Thread starter Jared
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To be fair, this thing in its current condition is hopelessly gone.
Here's what actually happened. A few months back (before the car fire) he brought it in for an evaluation. At the time it just had a massive cluster of bad sectors around the MFT. He was quoted our tier one price to recover it, but he turned down the quote at the time due to lack of funds. However since it was a slow week, we ended up cloning the drive while waiting to hear back from him.
The real stroke of miracle was the fact that we still had the data several months later when he brought it back post fire. Normally we wipe data after a week or so when that happens. But, the drive we had been using as a target started acting up. Assuming bad sectors, I put it aside to check later but didn't get around to it. So when he brought it back in ashes, we still have 99% of the data here.
Not exactly a miracle I know, but seems like one to the customer who really needed the data.
Here's what actually happened. A few months back (before the car fire) he brought it in for an evaluation. At the time it just had a massive cluster of bad sectors around the MFT. He was quoted our tier one price to recover it, but he turned down the quote at the time due to lack of funds. However since it was a slow week, we ended up cloning the drive while waiting to hear back from him.
The real stroke of miracle was the fact that we still had the data several months later when he brought it back post fire. Normally we wipe data after a week or so when that happens. But, the drive we had been using as a target started acting up. Assuming bad sectors, I put it aside to check later but didn't get around to it. So when he brought it back in ashes, we still have 99% of the data here.
Not exactly a miracle I know, but seems like one to the customer who really needed the data.