Laptop HD repair/recovery question

[Alan Johnson]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Ed lawson <elawson at grizzy.com> wrote:

> A friend was recently happily using his Dell Inspiron (Windows XP) when
> it suddenly displayed blue screen and subsequent boot attempts have
> lead to a no bootable device message.  Running a live Linux CD
> results in a indication the HD is dead...maybe hosed partition table.


Try http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ if you have not already.

Any suggestions of NH repair shops to check system/HD, repair and
> determine if recovery of bad drive feasible at reasonable price and/or
> best nearby recovery shop?


I researched this back in the spring and found no one in NH or VT that was
reasonable priced.  I ended up sending it to http://www.aerodr.com/ but
there was major physical damage to my drive, so they could not handle it.
They referred me over to http://www.essdatarecovery.com/ who was able to
recover 100% of the data (as far as I have seen: no bad files yet).  If
there is no physical damage, then the $279 flat rate with Aero should apply,
but I also expect there is a local geek that could help you out there as it
is just a matter of knowing how to use the right utilities to get the data
off.

Worse case, you just send a USB drive along with the bad one to Aero and you
should have all your data back on the USB drive within a few days.  I think
Areo will sell you a USB drive as well if you don't have one to send with
that bad drive.
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