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 >http://www.WhiteKnightHackers.com
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