Cover note + manifest + per-drive labels for a small batch of legacy drives going through triage at dtown tech, with a path for dead drives to escalate to Data Recovery NJ.
Hi Blake — three legacy drives in this drop, each labelled with a slug + QR. The drives carry photographs and project work going back several years; we'd like to recover what's recoverable and identify which drives are worth the deeper effort vs which can be retired.
Each drive has a disposition code printed on its label (see the legend overleaf) — that's our planned action; please update with what you actually call after triage. The drives that you flag as TRANSFER-OUT go to Data Recovery NJ; we'll handle that handoff. No need for a quote on those — just flag and return them to me.
The QR on each label links to a public stub page (id.gf.cx/<slug>) with my contact + return address — useful if a drive gets separated from this packet. The slug itself (e.g. seed-drive-01) is what I'll use to log events on my side, so referring to it on a callback is easier than reading off a serial number.
Per the shortlist conversation: free diagnostic on the first batch, per-drive imaging fee to confirm on first call, escalation criteria for anything above ~$400 / clean-room work. I'll come by for the drop-off once we've picked a time.
Two-vendor batch. dtown tech runs triage + wrangling on every drive. Drives flagged TRANSFER-OUT escalate to Data Recovery NJ for deep recovery. Per-vendor depth (call notes, costs, events) lives on each contractor's job page; this manifest is the cross-vendor lens.
| Slug | Identity | Planned | Called | Date in | Outcome note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| seed-drive-01 | 2TB · WD Elements · USB3 |
TRIAGE → MINE | |||
| seed-drive-02 | 4TB · Seagate Backup Plus |
TRIAGE → MINE | |||
| seed-drive-03 | 1TB · LaCie Rugged |
TRIAGE → TRANSFER-OUT |
Planned = what Dan expects based on prior knowledge of the drive. Called = what dtown tech decides after physical inspection. Mismatches are useful — they refine next batch's pre-handoff classification.
The five-code vocabulary printed on every drive's faceplate label. Single page; pin it next to the bench. Every drive starts at TRIAGE and ends in one of the other four states.
One label per drive. Cut + stick to the drive faceplate (or attach with a tag-tie if the drive has no flat surface). Each label encodes the slug, the planned disposition, the public-stub URL, and a QR pointing to id.gf.cx/<slug>.