RE: CRIME catastrophic Hard Drive Data Recovery Options?

From: eric.kornberg@private
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 10:09:57 PDT

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    Eric Kornberg 
    SARCOM Computer Services
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: Solomon, Charlie [mailto:clsolomon@private] 
    Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 8:57 AM
    To: crime@private
    Subject: RE: CRIME catastrophic Hard Drive Data Recovery Options?
    
    	Back many, many years ago, I remember there was a company in SE PDX
    that I think was called Hard Drive Associates.  They had a clean room.
    
    Charlie Solomon
    IS Director
    Oregon Rail
    <Mailto:clsolomon@private>
    503.265.5568 
    
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Myers, Mike [mailto:Mike.Myers@private-LMCO.com] 
    Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 7:46 AM
    To: crime@private
    Subject: RE: CRIME catastrophic Hard Drive Data Recovery Options?
    
    
    My one experience with the clean-room approach was assisting another person.
    I can't recall which company we used, but it was one that would preserve the
    warranty on the drive (back before drives were so darn cheap).  They charged
    a fee (a little over $100 as I recall) to open and examine the drive in a
    clean-room and provide an estimate on recovery.  Unfortunately, they found
    the drive head had physically scraped the recording media off the platters
    and there was nothing they could do.  
    
    My only consolation was that all that powdered media had to cost them some
    $$ to remove from their clean room :)
    
    Cheers,
     - Mike.Myers@private-lmco.com
    
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Zot O'Connor [mailto:zot@private]
    Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 10:57 PM
    To: Colin Walker
    Cc: crime@private
    Subject: Re: CRIME catostrophic Hard Drive Data Recovery Options?
    
    
    There are two options:
    
    1)  Software, try to repartition the drive to read the data nad make best
    guesses.  This will work a bunch of times, but can take time.
    
    2)  Clean room.  On Track does this, as does others.  This is more of a
    hardware approach.  It is iffy and expensive.
    
    
    On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 10:37, Colin Walker wrote:
    > Good day;
    > 	I know this isn't exactly on topic but I am hoping someone may be 
    > able to help me. A friend of mine had a catastrophic home problem this 
    > weekend that left his computer rather unusable. Does anyone have a 
    > suggestion for a Hard Drive data recovery company? Who would you
    recommend?
    > 
    > Thanks for your time.
    > 
    > Colin Walker
    > Digimarc Corporation
    > Cwalker@private
    > 
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    Zot O'Connor
    
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