Recovered Seagate Disk Gives Clues to Columbia Crash

[JustaGeek]

PC World article:

http://www.pcworld.com/busines...to_columbia_crash.html

If NASA is comfortable using Seagate Hard Drives, so am I.

BTW, Seagate website shows 340GB Hard Drive, not 400GB as mentioned in the article.

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/in...=en-US&reqPage=Legacy#

 

[imported_wired247]

cool article thanks

 

[JustaGeek]

Yes, I find the story pretty incredible too...

 

[Zap]

That is utterly amazing! However, made me sad thinking back to when it happened.

 

[JustaGeek]

Originally posted by: Zap
That is utterly amazing! However, made me sad thinking back to when it happened.

Same here...

But I am sure that the astronauts would be really happy knowing that their hard work can still be used...

 

[EarthwormJim]

Only hard drives I've had fail on me were Seagates. Two 7200.7s...

 

[mattocs]

Originally posted by: EarthwormJim
Only hard drives I've had fail on me were Seagates. Two 7200.7s...

I've only had a lot of Maxtors die on me. One Seagate 250GB that I bought off the FS/T here died three days after I got it...and it ended up being OEM so it had no warranty, and I had a 40GB WD drive die on me that came in a Dell I bought in 2001. It just died two days ago.

I enjoy Seagate for the most part, but WD is also good.


I want to burn a hard drive and see if I could recover the data off it....

 

[Soundmanred]

I've never had a hard drive die on me, but I've replaced many for other people. I never noticed a trend in name brand vs. reliability.
I still have a ton of drives from a 3.2GB that came in my Gateway2000 200MHz.
I have 3.2GB, 6.4GB, 10GB, 20GB, 40GB, 80GB, 160GB, 200GB, 320GB, 500GB and 1TB drives of all brands that still work.

The Columbia drive - I'd imagine they are more worried about integrity over speed and capacity. The drive was made in 1995 and two other drives were destroyed beyond recovery, so you can't really compare that with the Seagate of today.
I found this to be a weird statement (I'll paraphrase)
"Over the past 4-1/2 years data recovery specialists have recovered 99% of the data in just two days."
So did it take 4-1/2 years, or two days?

 

[EarthwormJim]

Originally posted by: mattocs

Originally posted by: EarthwormJim
Only hard drives I've had fail on me were Seagates. Two 7200.7s...

I've only had a lot of Maxtors die on me. One Seagate 250GB that I bought off the FS/T here died three days after I got it...and it ended up being OEM so it had no warranty, and I had a 40GB WD drive die on me that came in a Dell I bought in 2001. It just died two days ago.

I enjoy Seagate for the most part, but WD is also good.


I want to burn a hard drive and see if I could recover the data off it....

As long as the platter is intact, data can be recovered.

 

[mattocs]

Originally posted by: EarthwormJim

Originally posted by: mattocs

Originally posted by: EarthwormJim
Only hard drives I've had fail on me were Seagates. Two 7200.7s...

I've only had a lot of Maxtors die on me. One Seagate 250GB that I bought off the FS/T here died three days after I got it...and it ended up being OEM so it had no warranty, and I had a 40GB WD drive die on me that came in a Dell I bought in 2001. It just died two days ago.

I enjoy Seagate for the most part, but WD is also good.


I want to burn a hard drive and see if I could recover the data off it....

As long as the platter is intact, data can be recovered.

Yeah.

The only plus side to having a dead hard drive is taking the magnets out. I use them on the fridge.

 

[Compddd]

This is a question relating to data recovery.

Is there anyway to retrieve zip files from a hard drive after it has been formatted and new data subsequently written to it since then?

 

[Phynaz]

Originally posted by: Compddd
This is a question relating to data recovery.

Is there anyway to retrieve zip files from a hard drive after it has been formatted and new data subsequently written to it since then?

Yes.

But it will be very expensive. Unless you are a multi-millionaire, then will seem to be only expensive.

 

[Compddd]

How much we talking about here?

 

[Rubycon]

Try the R-Studio trial. It will let you see what's recoverable and you can buy a key.

Most likely the stuff will still be there UNLESS the sectors containing the ZIP files were completely overwritten. (possible but not a given) Certainly worth a try before turning it over to a specialist that can charge thousands of dollars.

 

[Phynaz]

Originally posted by: Compddd
How much we talking about here?

As Rubycon said, as long as the data you are looking for hasn't been written over, any of the unformat tools will work.

If the data has been written over, then you're going to have to hire a computer forensics company. Is that zip file worth high five figures to you?