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Subject: Hard drive data recovery shops for FreeBSD partitions?
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I have an external Western Digital USB drive that is no longer
accessible.  On power-up, it just makes a clickety-clackety noise for a
few seconds, and then any attempts to read from the drive fail.

I'm reasonably certain the problem is in the arm/head mechanism, and that
the data on the drive is most likely still intact.

Does anyone know of a data recovery shop *anywhere* that can handle
FreeBSD UFS2 partitions?

Thanks!

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