**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Mon Jan 28 02:59:57 2008 Jan 28 03:31:59 is going to have to either figure out himself, ask a friend, or pay someone in hardware parts to modify ddrescue code slightly so that when it hits a bunch of bad sectors to randomly skip to another point on the disk Jan 28 03:32:21 * flyback hands himself a /ame Jan 28 03:41:09 oMG, NO SOONER THAN I TALK about trying to pull more data off my dad's dead laptop hd that I hear a beep coming from the p3-450 box I setup in the other room to act as a dedicated data recovery box for that disk, MHDD HAS GOT PAST THE ONE BAD SPOT AND IS PULLING DATA, Jan 28 03:41:37 I DON'T know what I did in the last month or so to make God smile but I wanna keep doing it :) Jan 28 03:45:15 * flyback is scared the next thing to happen will be the girl in his he took to the prom like 17-18 yrs ago will come walking thru the door :P Jan 28 04:19:43 * flyback is about to break down crying because he can't believe his life might actually be turning around :_) Jan 28 04:51:43 DOH! the 2 usb to serial cables I bought to use as generic serial level converters and cut the ends off, turns out they would fit my cell phone :P Jan 28 05:01:07 looks like that thing might be wrong and my model cell phone doesn't have the right connector after all :P Jan 28 05:08:13 * flyback is having a bad anxienty attack due to the fact that so many things have been going right all at once, he expects something horrid to happen any moment :/ Jan 28 06:05:53 * flyback goodnight all Jan 28 22:34:46 omgwtfbbq my dad's dead hard drive I been probing with data recovery sw mounted Jan 28 22:35:11 wtf how did it repair itself?!?! Jan 28 22:37:01 * flyback starts making 500 copies of the disc while it's undead Jan 28 22:37:26 sometimes it helps to put it in the fridge for a few hours Jan 28 22:37:33 in a ziplock bag Jan 28 22:38:29 I went thru all this Jan 28 22:38:41 I was into low level recovery world bro Jan 28 22:38:44 board swap Jan 28 22:38:48 was getting ready to do a head swap Jan 28 22:39:01 ah Jan 28 22:40:57 * flyback is scared s***less right now Jan 28 22:41:16 why? Jan 28 22:41:30 dude Jan 28 22:41:38 you don't understand how close to total death this hd was Jan 28 22:42:22 well, i say copy stuff first and get scared later :) Jan 28 22:42:50 I am I am Jan 28 22:42:56 formatting another disk to copy the files to Jan 28 22:46:59 bah it chocked on a sector trying to make a 2nd image oh well :P Jan 28 23:08:20 just managed to copy his dad's entire "my documents" folder on a drive that was 99.999% dead for the last 6 months, you couldn't even read raw sectors Jan 28 23:08:48 * flyback is really scared out of his mind right now Jan 28 23:09:41 must be phases of the moon Jan 28 23:11:01 * flyback has gone from wanting to die cause of 34 yrs of misery to suddentely realizing "i'm winning" Jan 28 23:11:27 * flyback is very thankful to God but scared out of his mind right now :P Jan 28 23:14:04 scott moulton of www.MyHardDriveDied.com is right, sometimes letting a drive just sit running and they start working long enough to get your stuff off Jan 28 23:19:48 so, a little offtopic... about this jtag thing Jan 28 23:20:17 sorry Jan 28 23:20:18 i'm new to this whole business but i have a device i want to get inside of Jan 28 23:20:35 sorry folks I didn't think about spamming all the channels, I am just a little excited :) Jan 28 23:20:49 i found a suspected 14-pin connector Jan 28 23:21:02 but it's 1x14 and not 2x7 Jan 28 23:21:24 half of them are ground though... so it sorta matches Jan 28 23:22:20 i measured the voltages, can pins be identified from them? Jan 28 23:24:55 hm anyone?... Jan 28 23:36:44 -_- Jan 28 23:40:08 * flyback is seriously crying right now Jan 28 23:55:44 * flyback lost 1 picture out of 10000's of his dad's files muhahahaa Jan 29 00:10:19 called his dad he is very happy :) Jan 29 00:14:34 there are two kinds of people Jan 29 00:14:42 those who backup and those who will Jan 29 00:15:08 * flyback hovers 2 feet off the ground Jan 29 00:55:52 * flyback is in freaking shock **** ENDING LOGGING AT Tue Jan 29 02:59:57 2008