(Yet another reason) Why I Hate Windows

[Tony Alfrey]

David A. Bandel wrote:
> On 9/21/07, Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Rick Bowers wrote:
>> <snip>
>>> I left that company (not by choice) and stored the drive. Two years
>>> later, the assets of that company were acquired and I went to work for
>>> the new company.  None of the old stuff had been transferred over (or,
>>> apparently, preserved) so I took out my backup. It won't spin up.
>>> Period. So all that data is sitting on a dead drive. Now I need to
>>> recreate everything from scratch, where possible. I won't be buying any
>>> more Western Digital drives...
>>>
>>> ~Rick
>>>
>> Is it not true that there are these disk drive recovery places that can
>> literally remove the disk and place it into their lab drives and recover
>> files?  I understand that they are not cheap but your data may be very
>> valuable.
>>
> 
> Yep.  I've used Kepler labs.  Can't say I'd necessarily recommend
> them, but they can do the job.  Depending on the size of the drive,
> you are likely looking at $1,000.00 plus.

And here's a link for a guy that has done this on his own drives
http://www.hackaday.com/2005/11/17/hard-drive-resurrection/



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Tony Alfrey
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"I'd Rather Be Sailing"