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HAS&gt; From: ale-bounces at ale.org [<a  rel="nofollow" href="mailto:ale-bounces";>mailto:ale-bounces</a> at ale.org] On Behalf Of
H. A. Story
HAS&gt; Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:25 AM
HAS&gt; To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
HAS&gt; Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Migrating off dying HDD

HAS&gt; Why not just put the PC in the freezer.  Run power, video,mouse and

HAS&gt; keyboard out.   Then work away.   Just let anyone see you trying
it.. :)

Better do that _before_ I go to the farmers' market! Afterward it's more
like, &quot;How long does this [vegetable|fruit] have to survive before I
again have refregerator space for it?&quot;

OTH, today I could just go outside to work!

Actually I gave the HDD a good &quot;cold soak&quot;, connected it to a &quot;regl'r&quot;
PC with a 2.5&quot;-&gt;3.5&quot; IDE adapter, wrapped drive and an ice pack in a
dishtowel, and fired off a massive MsWin 'copy'.

That got me about 1/2 hr's working time, good for roughly 5.2 out of 5.6
GBy of the owner's personal files. I'll go back for the rest when the
drive's cold again, a few directories at a time.

There are another ~3 GBy of applications, but those should be
re-installed rather than copied.

I may &quot;share&quot; the recovery directory onto our LAN, and let the owner
sift for what she wants to keep.

Thanks for the good ideas.

 - Mills
 

-----Original Message-----

Adrin



Bob Toxen wrote:

&gt;If you still cannot get more than a few minutes operations, either
&gt;rsync (like someone else suggested) or use the dd program to copy until
&gt;it dies, then cool and re-invoke dd with the skil and seek options
&gt;to pick up after the last good block already copied.



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