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Anybody use a Data Recovery Service?

 
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My sister�s computer is a doorstop. I tried booting the bare mobo and CPU and didn�t get a POST. Tried swapping out the power supply, same thing.
I tried putting the hard drive in my computer and got a Win2k blue screen indicating that the boot drive was unreachable.
If I make it slave to my own Win2k system it doesn�t get assigned a drive letter, so the data, 2 years worth of precious baby pictures, are unreachable.
Has anyone used a data recovery service?
 
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I have not. But I knew someone who used to work at Ontrack, and my understanding is that they are quite good.
 
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Just browsing around, it appears that data recovery of a typical hard drive is going to run around ~$500. Just a reminder that backing up is cheap!

In other news, Knoppix saves the day!
I booted my Win2k system with it and even though it had a bunch of read errors on the damaged hard drive, it was able to mount the partition with little Max's photos.
[ December 20, 2006: Message edited by: Joe Ess ]
 
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Originally posted by Joe Ess:
...Knoppix saves the day! ...


Wow! Now, that's cool!
 
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really cool...
 
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