[ale] Seagate 500GB Sata-CRASH!

[Adam Allred]

Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sat January 17 2009, Adam Allred wrote:
>> They're even offering free data recovery. I certainly hope there's
>> nothing on the drive that prohibits it leaving your hands...
> 
> it was a backup drive, and extra space for music & pictures, luckily I didn't 
> MOVE all pictures to it yet..
> the sensitive data I kept in ~/Private that got mounted by me, with a secure 
> password. I didn't see anything on their site about free data recovery, but 
> they SHOULD do it!!
> 
> 

Try this:

http://seagate.custkb.com/seagate/crm/selfservice/search.jsp?DocId=207931

I looks like they want you to see if you have an affected hard drive, 
and if so, call them up or e-mail them.

Indeed, the part about free data recovery services has mysteriously 
disappeared.

But it can't hurt to try.