> are any of our geeks knowledgeable on the subject of hard drive data > recovery? I hope you find someone to recover this data. I never had much luck, myself. It takes some specialized software, and depending on the cause of the fault, might require some specialized h/w too. > He sent the drive to Seagate, and they want $2350 to recover it! That seems pretty reasonable. If there are the right geeks here, they might be able to recover the data. There are some tools I know of to recover data from NTFS, but I don't think it will work on HFS or whatever file system is used on Macs nowadays. > We need the data... do I just pay it? Ouch. If you need it, I'd suggest you pay the pros. If you "need it" but could manage without it if it is beyond repair, then one of the other geeks might be able to help out. Sorry I'm not more helpful. -JEEP __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com