On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 16:43:46 CET, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 01/10/2017 02:47 AM, K Mmmm wrote: [...] > That would definitely make it worth sending the drive to a professional > data recovery company and ask them to try to recover just those 16 > missing sectors. Well, maybe. But keep in mind this will only help if they get all of them completely and there is no other relevant damage. Might also be very expensive if there is surface damage to the platters. Regards, Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., Email: arno@xxxxxxxxxxx GnuPG: ID: CB5D9718 FP: 12D6 C03B 1B30 33BB 13CF B774 E35C 5FA1 CB5D 9718 ---- A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. -- Plato If it's in the news, don't worry about it. The very definition of "news" is "something that hardly ever happens." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt