Re: Hard drive overheated, now can't get into loop-AES partitions...

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Jari Ruusu wrote:
> Mike M wrote:
> > Its crashed out several times and I've been dd'ing all my data off my
> > old drive onto a new drive with
> 
> In your case you may want to try something like this:
> 
> $ losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/hdb11
> $ blockdev --setbsz 512 /dev/hdb11
> $ dd bs=512 if=/dev/hdb11 of=hdb11.dmg conv=noerror
> $ losetup -d /dev/loop0

Forgot to mention that physically mounting your disk upside down (reverse
gravity) or storing it in refrigerator for few hours may increase your
chances of recovering your encrypted data. OTOH, those may kill the drive
as well.

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Jari Ruusu  1024R/3A220F51 5B 4B F9 BB D3 3F 52 E9  DB 1D EB E3 24 0E A9 DD

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