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Things are picking up.....
In the past couple of weeks, I've been getting a lot of nibbles (interest from recruiters). I've had a few bites (interest from cients) as well. This past week, I had 3 interviews, and two are on deck, waiting to be scheduled.
Meanwhile, I'm working on a data recovery issue. A friend had a Seagate FreeAgent Go external hard drive that would mount but would not display data. So I said I'd take a look at it. I ran several tests, including GetDataBack. It appears that there's a bad cylinder on the drive, as every 64th block is bad or unreadable. Right now, I'm using the Unix power tool "dd" to make a raw copy of the drive to another good hard drive, so I can do my data recovery there. The problem is, this dd operation is going to take at least 5 days.
Meanwhile, I'm working on a data recovery issue. A friend had a Seagate FreeAgent Go external hard drive that would mount but would not display data. So I said I'd take a look at it. I ran several tests, including GetDataBack. It appears that there's a bad cylinder on the drive, as every 64th block is bad or unreadable. Right now, I'm using the Unix power tool "dd" to make a raw copy of the drive to another good hard drive, so I can do my data recovery there. The problem is, this dd operation is going to take at least 5 days.