From owner-freebsd-chat Fri May 5 13:44:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [208.164.68.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D28D37B79B for ; Fri, 5 May 2000 13:44:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA14148; Fri, 5 May 2000 10:44:07 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 10:44:07 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Olaf Hoyer Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hard Disk Data Recovery In-Reply-To: <4.1.20000505114542.0096cdd0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 5 May 2000, Olaf Hoyer wrote: > At 16:06 04.05.00 -1000, you wrote: > > Has anyone had a hard disk head crash and needed to use a Data > >Recovery company? Anyone have any recommendations for good ones that are > >economical or is Ontrack the only choice? > > > Hi! > > Ontrack is the one that is well known. Yep, Ontrack certainly is well known but what are the other popular ones in the US that are good. It seems like I tried PRC and all they can do is repair drives and software recovery and not have the equipment since they referred me to Ontrack. > A german mag tested some companies with prepared HDDs, and they came to the > result that in most cases the big four (in germany) were equal, only differ > in service. > IIRC it was the c't or the PC Intern, I'll look that up when there is > concrete need... Well, my notebook 14 gig HDD in the IBM ThinkPad 770Z HD had a Head Crash so I'm trying to locate someone who can do the job well and for a decent price. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message