Lazarus - Come Out

It stinketh. Entombed for over four days with no sign of life there was little hope.

The drive was recognized by the host machine but the data partition showed no sign of life.

Try #1. Boot the machine with UBCD4WIN (Bart'sPE). The data partition was viewable but files kept disappearing before my eyes. Within minutes, the partition disappeared like a ghost.

Try #2. Using a USB to ATA adapter plugged into a normally forgiving Ubuntu machine. It said the file system (partition) was corrupt.

Try #3. Booting Knoppix on the machine with USB to ATA adapter, the data partition reappeared but had no data.

Try #4. Put the drive in the "fridge" and went to bed. In the morning, both data and recovery partitions had vanished. After several minutes of power applied to the drive, both partitions returned and the data was successfully copied to another USB hard drive. Split the archives in two and burned to DVD.

We need another host computer and disk drive for the data, the original body is hazardous waste, but this data will live on.