[TriLUG] call for help

[Kevin Flanagan]

You could also look into UBCD, Ultimate Boot CD. it's got a pretty good
set of tools.


> 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).
>
> Both she and I thank you in advance for any pointers.
>
> Steve
>
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