Re: tlug: Help! Hard disk recovery...

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 27 Jul 1998, Gavin Walker wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> MY PC has just been shipped out here, but somewhere along the way
> someone dropped it. The SCSI adaptor recognizes my SCSI drives'
> electronics OK, but it tells me that the drive isn't ready. When
> running the drive is making repeated 'kerclick kerclick' types noises
> and is vibrating quite a lot.
> 
> Basic question - Does anyone know any good data recovery companies?
> Ideally what I'd like to do is buy a new drive and hand that and the
> dead one to an expert, to see what they could transfer. This is my
> personal machine, so I can't afford a huge pile of cash. The data is
> important to me (fiction I wrote, my web site, email backups), but not
> life threatening I suppose. *Sob*.

Unfortunately, recovering data from a drive that's damaged like that is
QUITE expensive, even in the USA.  It wasn't economically feasible for
PHT-USA when we had a drive or two that did that.

> 
> TIA,
> 
> 
> Gav
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