[s-cars] NAC: hard drive crash

[Mike Claire]

Paul:  Maybe there' s something here for you - 200 ways to revive a hard
drive <http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-6255-5029761-10.html>

Here's something from the article that got my attention -

From: Matthew Harvey
> Had this happen last year. Tried running the drive as a slave in another
> machine (could be the controller, you know) but that didn't do the trick. So
> we sent it away to a recovery shop. They charge $100 to look at it, send you
> a list of all the files they could find and recover, and then they want
> $1,500 to send you those files on a CD-R. We balked at the charge and said,
> "No thanks, just send us back our hard drive." They did. Of course, in order
> to read the disk and list the files for us, they had to make a repair to the
> drive. When it was returned to us I was able to slave it in another machine
> and copy all of its contents—just finished before their jury-rigged repair
> failed on us. Full data recovery for $100—not a bad deal, huh?
>


Now that's JNR!



Mike




On 4/2/07, pkrasusky at ups.com <pkrasusky at ups.com> wrote:
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> Sorry for the WOB, I just got the fun chance to have my hard drive crash
> here.  Lost ***everything***, suchsuch great news.
>
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> My IT guy here says I'm f'd, but thought I'd ask yous heres if anyone
> has any insight on it for me.  60gb IBM.
>
> Let me know of any suggestions.  Just totally sucks.  If all of yous who
> I'm in ever in contact with would kindly FLOOD me inbox with an email
> that would be great, gotta start rebuilding.
>
> Still a bit speechless about this one.  Man.
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>
> -Paul too many eggs in one basket K.
>
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