[ale] Hard Drive data recovery services? (Ron Frazier (ALE))

Thu May 30 14:17:16 EDT 2013

No.  I'm just a happy customer.  I've seen the spinrite product recover data and drives that no other thing I know of could do.  Data is fragile, and sometimes rare and irreplaceable.  I hate to see it get permanently lost when it's avoidable.  I also try to help people out where I can.

I've also gotten lots of good security data from their podcast over the years, which they do for free.  I try to pay them back a bit for the service by giving recommendations for the product.  I do this of my own free will.

Sincerely,

Ron

dev null zero two <dev.null.02 at gmail.com> wrote:

>Do you get paid by GRC?
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>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com>
>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 11:37:18 -0400
>> Subject: Re: [ale] Hard Drive data recovery services?
>> **
>> 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.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Ron
>>
>> On 5/30/2013 10:14 AM, Pete Hardie wrote:
>>
>>  Just a follow-up on my HDD recovery saga
>>
>>  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.
>>
>>  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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Pete Hardie
>> --------
>> Better Living Through Bitmaps
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Ken Cochran <kwc at theworld.com>
>wrote:
>>
>>> In this (my) particular case it was good data on the media but
>>> a complete no-spin & the filesystems were (Free)BSD.  Either
>>> the spindle motor or its associated electronics had failed.
>>> I was not exactly comfortable with the idea of recovering
>>> *that* myself...  -kc
>>>
>>> > Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 11:11:02 -0400
>>> > From: Ted Wood <wood at gatech.edu>
>>> > To: ale at ale.org
>>> > Subject: Re: [ale] Hard Drive data recovery services?
>>> >
>>>  > On 05/23/2013 10:44 AM, Ken Cochran wrote:
>>> > > Heard good things of them too (Moulton).
>>> > > (Excellent) personal experience with Cherry, In Marietta.
>>> > > Evidently we're fortunate to have some *good* local choices.
>>> > >
>>> > > -kc
>>> > >
>>> > >> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 10:20:38 -0400
>>> > >> From: Mike Ivey <miketech.jr at gmail.com>
>>> > >> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>>> > >> Subject: Re: [ale] Hard Drive data recovery services?
>>> > >>
>>> > >> I have heard good things about Scott Moulton's
>myharddrivedied.com.
>>> I have
>>> > >> not used him personally, but I have been to a few of his talks.
>This
>>> guy
>>> > >> really knows his stuff.
>>> > >>
>>> > >> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Pete Hardie
><pete.hardie at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > >>
>>> > >>> ISTR that the topic of data recovery has come up before on the
>>> list.  Does
>>> > >>> anyone have recommendations for good places to get data
>recovered
>>> off a
>>> > >>> laptop drive?  The wife's laptop appears to have crapped out
>and
>>> she did
>>> > >>> not have the latest set of photos backed up
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>> TIA,
>>> > >>>
>>> > >>> Pete Hardie
>>> > >>> --------
>>> > >>> Better Living Through Bitmaps
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>>> >
>>>  > I'll throw another +1 in for myhaddrivedied.com. Scott is a great
>guy
>>> > and he really knows his stuff. If he can't recover it, chances are
>it's
>>> > not going to be recoverable.
>>> >
>>> > On a side note (and some may call me crazy) I've had good luck
>using
>>> > SpinRite (yes, the SpinRite from Steve Gibson of Security Now!
>fame).
>>> > Say what you will but I've used it on several occasions and had it
>get a
>>> > disk working well enough to read the data off to another medium.
>Scott
>>> > will tell you it's a waste of money and it might cause more harm
>than
>>> > good (in some cases this may be true) but I've had luck with it so
>I
>>> > thought it was worth a mention.
>>> >
>>> > </$0.02>
>>> >
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