<div dir="ltr">Do you get paid by GRC?<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>><br>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>><br>
Cc: <br>Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 11:37:18 -0400<br>Subject: Re: [ale] Hard Drive data recovery services?<br><u></u>
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Depending on how important the remainder was, there's still a
likelihood that Spinrite could recover it. You'd have to be willing to
pay $ 89 to try it and get the refund if it didn't work for you.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Ron<br>
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On 5/30/2013 10:14 AM, Pete Hardie wrote:
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<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Just
a follow-up on my HDD recovery saga<br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I
was able to use ddrescue and a borrowed USB-SATA cable to access the
drive, and recovered all but 17M of 500G, if I understand the output of
ddrescue. I'm in the process of dropping the recovered photos, etc to
DVD so that we have real backup copies, and my wife can restore those
that she wants on her machine at her leisure.<br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks
again for all the pointers and advice - it looks like I'm able to get
most if not all of what we thought was lost.<br>
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<div>Pete Hardie<br>
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Better Living Through Bitmaps</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Ken Cochran
<span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kwc@theworld.com" target="_blank">kwc@theworld.com</a>></span>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">In
this (my) particular case it was good data on the media but<br>
a complete no-spin & the filesystems were (Free)BSD. Either<br>
the spindle motor or its associated electronics had failed.<br>
I was not exactly comfortable with the idea of recovering<br>
*that* myself... -kc<br>
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> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 11:11:02 -0400<br>
> From: Ted Wood <<a href="mailto:wood@gatech.edu" target="_blank">wood@gatech.edu</a>><br>
> To: <a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a><br>
<div>> Subject: Re: [ale] Hard Drive data
recovery services?<br>
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<div>> On 05/23/2013 10:44 AM, Ken Cochran wrote:<br>
> > Heard good things of them too (Moulton).<br>
> > (Excellent) personal experience with Cherry, In Marietta.<br>
> > Evidently we're fortunate to have some *good* local choices.<br>
> ><br>
> > -kc<br>
> ><br>
> >> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 10:20:38 -0400<br>
> >> From: Mike Ivey <<a href="mailto:miketech.jr@gmail.com" target="_blank">miketech.jr@gmail.com</a>><br>
> >> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>><br>
> >> Subject: Re: [ale] Hard Drive data recovery services?<br>
> >><br>
> >> I have heard good things about Scott Moulton's <a href="http://myharddrivedied.com" target="_blank">myharddrivedied.com</a>. I have<br>
> >> not used him personally, but I have been to a few of his
talks. This guy<br>
> >> really knows his stuff.<br>
> >><br>
> >> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Pete Hardie <<a href="mailto:pete.hardie@gmail.com" target="_blank">pete.hardie@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >>> ISTR that the topic of data recovery has come up
before on the list. Does<br>
> >>> anyone have recommendations for good places to get
data recovered off a<br>
> >>> laptop drive? The wife's laptop appears to have
crapped out and she did<br>
> >>> not have the latest set of photos backed up<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> TIA,<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> Pete Hardie<br>
> >>> --------<br>
> >>> Better Living Through Bitmaps<br>
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<div>> I'll throw another +1 in for <a href="http://myhaddrivedied.com" target="_blank">myhaddrivedied.com</a>.
Scott is a great guy<br>
> and he really knows his stuff. If he can't recover it, chances are
it's<br>
> not going to be recoverable.<br>
><br>
> On a side note (and some may call me crazy) I've had good luck
using<br>
> SpinRite (yes, the SpinRite from Steve Gibson of Security Now!
fame).<br>
> Say what you will but I've used it on several occasions and had it
get a<br>
> disk working well enough to read the data off to another medium.
Scott<br>
> will tell you it's a waste of money and it might cause more harm
than<br>
> good (in some cases this may be true) but I've had luck with it so
I<br>
> thought it was worth a mention.<br>
><br>
> </$0.02><br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Ted Wood <<a href="mailto:wood@gatech.edu" target="_blank">wood@gatech.edu</a>><br>
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