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Got a foolish question for you folks [message #59845] Tue, 30 December 2003 18:28 Go to next message
Apache is currently offline  Apache
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Alright, my mother was working on her computer this morning when she said it just froze on her, she could move the mouse, but when she went to open something or whatever, the computer just did nothing, so she rebooted it and found that it was asking her to insert a system disk and hit enter. I immediately feared the worst, and unfortunately I was right, the hard disk is toasted... The disk is drawing power, but the little servos or whatever run it are toast. The disk contains a lot of important buisness information, and a lot of pictures (my mother is a photographer, so it has over 2 GBs of pictures alone)

I've got some backups, but she has lost of huge ton of important information with the disk, I was wondering if anyone knows about some sort of company somewhere that specializes in repairing hard disks without damaging any of the data on the disk itself?

Thanks for any help you guys can offer!

Russell


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Got a foolish question for you folks [message #59847] Tue, 30 December 2003 18:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
DrasticDR is currently offline  DrasticDR
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Ideally I think this is not the place to get an accurate answer. Try this site, I go there when I have problems and got a quick reply.

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/community/forums/

Good luck.
Got a foolish question for you folks [message #59850] Tue, 30 December 2003 19:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Thanks DrasticDR, I appreciate it.

- Russell
Got a foolish question for you folks [message #62155] Thu, 15 January 2004 23:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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There is a company that has saved data from comps in fires and even from a comp under the amazon.

http://www.drivesavers.com/
Got a foolish question for you folks [message #63356] Fri, 23 January 2004 18:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Wow, that drivesavers site is really hard to believe! You wouldn't think it possible to recover the data from computers that screwed up! Shocked
Got a foolish question for you folks [message #63424] Sat, 24 January 2004 14:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
kopaka649 is currently offline  kopaka649
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it's possible, but hard disk recovery doesn't come in cheap
Got a foolish question for you folks [message #63428] Sat, 24 January 2004 14:36 Go to previous message
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$200 - $2000 Depending on what they need to do.
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