Re: CRIME catostrophic Hard Drive Data Recovery Options?

From: Barb Frederiksen (barb@private)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 15:20:03 PDT

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    If the problem is in the drives electronics, and the platters are intact, you can sometimes swap the platters into a symmetric drive (same make/model) and effect the restore that way.
    
    Can you provide some additional info about the nature of the catastrophe? 
    
    -Barb
    
    At 10:56 PM 5/6/2002 -0700, Zot O'Connor wrote:
    >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
    >> 
    >-- 
    >Zot O'Connor
    >
    >http://www.ZotConsulting.com
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