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I have heard good things about SpinRite as
well. I will ask around at work on Tuesday for other ideas.
Chris Ballowe
cballowe[at]comcast.net
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Geeks] another question
from Kristin...
There are two lower priced options you might want to try
first:
- First, SpinRite can do a low-level repair of a hard
drive, even it if it can't recognize the partition. (It can do
everything from Windows to Mac to TiVo.)
http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
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Second, Stellar makes a piece of software that will scan a drive that has been
damaged and recover files. You can use the "free" version to see what
will be recovered and then pay for the software if it will work. I used
it to salvage work from a toasted drive and I got back just about everything.
http://www.stellarinfo.com/index.htm
Both
of these assume that the drive can spin on its own. If there is a
hardware problem, you could always get a drive of the same model and swap out
the circuit board on the back. If it's not the motor or read arm that
are the issue, that should let you spin it back up.
Chris
On 5/7/07, Kristin
<kristin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
are
any of our geeks knowledgeable on the subject of hard drive
data
recovery?
as you may have seen Andy quote under his Thought
Residue this week:
<
http://wunderland.com/WhatsOld/2007/WN.05.03.07.html>
"I'm
riding on several bummers right now: 1) The hard drive where I keep
all
my video files stopped working (and I may have lost forever the high
rez
versions of a few of my recent movies)."
He sent the drive to
Seagate, and they want $2350 to recover it!
We need the
data... do I just pay it?
They've got me right where they want
me...
Any advice or
suggestions?
-Kristin
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