Data recovery application
First Claim
1. A system for the recovery of data from a failing or failed hard drive comprising:
- a computer having a first hard drive and a second hard drive attached thereto, the first hard being the failed or failing hard drive and the second hard drive being a hard drive to which data may be copied from the first hard drive;
computer software executed by the computer for copying data contained on the first hard drive to the second hard drive;
a chamber enclosing at least the first hard drive, the chamber being in communication with the computer, the chamber capable of altering at least one property of environment within the chamber programmatically at direction of the computer software in order to recover data from the first hard drive that was not readable by the computer before the property of environment was altered.
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Abstract
A system for the recovery of data from a failing or failed hard drive including a computer, computer software and a chamber. The computer has a first hard drive and a second hard drive attached thereto. The first hard is the failed or failing hard drive, and the second hard drive is a hard drive to which data may be copied from the first hard drive. The computer software is executed by the computer for copying data contained on the first hard drive to the second hard drive. The chamber encloses at least the first hard drive. The chamber is in communication with the computer and is capable of altering at least one property of environment within the chamber programmatically at direction of the computer software in order to recover data from the first hard drive that was not readable by the computer before the property of environment was altered. An example of the properties are pressure, temperature, spindle motor current and vibration.
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17 Claims
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1. A system for the recovery of data from a failing or failed hard drive comprising:
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a computer having a first hard drive and a second hard drive attached thereto, the first hard being the failed or failing hard drive and the second hard drive being a hard drive to which data may be copied from the first hard drive;
computer software executed by the computer for copying data contained on the first hard drive to the second hard drive;
a chamber enclosing at least the first hard drive, the chamber being in communication with the computer, the chamber capable of altering at least one property of environment within the chamber programmatically at direction of the computer software in order to recover data from the first hard drive that was not readable by the computer before the property of environment was altered. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system for the recovery of data from a failing or failed hard drive comprising:
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a computer having a first hard drive and a second hard drive attached thereto, the first hard being the failed or failing hard drive and the second hard drive being a hard drive to which data may be copied from the first hard drive;
computer software executed by the computer for copying data contained on the first hard drive to the second hard drive;
a chamber enclosing at least the first hard drive, the chamber being in communication with the computer, the chamber capable of altering at least one property of environment within the chamber programmatically at direction of the computer software in order to recover data from the first hard drive that was not readable by the computer before the property of environment was altered; and
a relay for receiving a signal from the computer to alter the at least one property of environment. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of recovering of data from a failing or failed hard drive comprising the steps of:
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operating the failed or failing hard drive to recover the data therefrom;
when an unreadable sector of data on the hard drive is discovered, performing a step selected from the group of;
a. modifying a property of temperature of the hard drive to attempt to read the unreadable sector;
b. modifying a property of pressure of the hard drive to attempt to read the unreadable sector; and
c. modifying a property of vibration of the hard drive to attempt to read the unreadable sector; and
copying the recovered data to a second hard drive.
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