[TriLUG] call for help

Ralph Blach chipper at us.ibm.com
Wed Apr 21 12:20:06 EDT 2004


Boy, this looks like a good solution to me.

Chip

Turnpike Man wrote:

>"Get Data Back"  http://www.runtime.org/
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>This has saved myself and a couple other LUGers who had win installed machines
>screw themselves... it costs I think... but cost is minor compared to the
>savings... also, teach her how to backup... and hope that the drive is not
>phyiscally damaged.  If OS corruption, you are probably ok.  You will need to
>put the damaged drive in a functioning system with this software installed.
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>good luck,
>David M.
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>--- Stephen Hoffman <srhoffman at hofftech.net> wrote:
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>>I just received a call from an employee in absolute panic.  Her hard drive
>>crashed and naturally she didn't have any backups.  There isn't much
>>sensitive information on there, but she has a 5 month old baby, whose
>>whole record of existence is on that HD (in digital picture format!)
>>
>>Does anyone know of or have good experience with a good place to take a HD
>>to try to recover data? She's in the Wilmington area, but I don't think
>>she cares where it's recovered.  From what she said to me, it doesn't
>>sound like the drive itself went completely kaput, but more then likely
>>some sort of OS corruption, it sees the boot partition and tries to load
>>windows then dies.  Dell swears that the drive is bad, and will be out
>>later this week to replace it.  She is obviously a windows person, but
>>when the dust settles, I'll definitely be FedEx-ing her a knoppix CD
>>(don't think now is the time to play the "if you were using linux" card).
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>>Both she and I thank you in advance for any pointers.
>>
>>Steve
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Ralph "Chip" Blach
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