Recovering data from failed Maxtor One Touch II drive

[Tim Vaughan]

> I've had really good luck with dd_rescue. As long as the drive's
> spinning, it'll try to chew data off it.


Thanks everyone for the advice - unfortunately, freezing it didn't
work and the drive refused to spin up.  Since opening the case up
would have voided the warranty I just RMA-ed it.  Maxtor's reputation
is pretty good so hopefully the replacement will be more reliable.