Hard Disk Failure

[Paul Lussier]

Neil Joseph Schelly <neil at jenandneil.com> writes:

> My boss just came to me with a failed hard drive in a personal computer of 
> his.  I'm remembering only that someone mentioned having some experience with 
> hard disc recovery services recently, but I can't seem to find it in my list 
> history.
>
> Can anyone with experience, suggestions in this regard let me know what I 
> might suggest to pass on to him?  Especially price-wise and expectations?

Get yourself a Knoppix CD, boot up with that, get a network connection
up and see if you can't rsync the data somewhere else.  I was able to
do this with my wife's laptop a couple years ago.  It's simple, cheap,
and fast.  If that doesn't work, and the data is important, then
consider a data recovery server.  But that's likely at the other end
of the spectrum: complicated, expensive, and slow :)

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Seeya,
Paul