Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 20:42:47 EDT From: Nataraj Dasgupta <xbsd@hotmail.com> To: dburr@pobox.com, dick@dgriffin.org Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: get data from crashed harddisk????? Message-ID: <19990630004249.7567.qmail@hotmail.com>
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I used to run NT once upon a time, and one fine morning, it died on me. I had just finished this work for the IT deptt. and had not backed it up. The data was finally recovered, and here is how that was done. The hdd was taken out and I connected it to the motherboard of a second PC so that it would act as a secondary IDE. when the booting was complete, I transfered the files from my HDD onto this PC, reformatted my disk, installed the OS and transferred them. Voila. Since you are probably talking about data on an unix fs, if you were to use a windoze machine to retrieve the data, see if you can get any Win s/w which could mount the type of fs in consideration. Cheap and effective method. Best of Luck. >From: Donald Burr <dburr@pobox.com> >To: Dick Griffin <dick@dgriffin.org> >CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: RE: get data from crashed harddisk????? >Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 20:27:29 -0700 (PDT) > >A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (actually, it was on 29-Jun-99), >the great prophet Dick Griffin once wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > > > One of my friends just had a harddisk die. She needs to get the data > > off > > of it. > > > > If you know of a service that will or can help, please drop me a note > > with the proper e-mail address or phone number. > > > > I'm not currently amember of the list so please respond directly to me. > > > > Thanks in advance. > >Good luck. Hard disk data recovery is indeed a black art, and it will >COST YOU UP THE WAZOO. > >Now that you are forewarned, I do know of one company that does said >recovery. They are OnTrack Systems (http://www.ontrack.com/). (Yes, >these are the same people that make OnTrack Drive Manager, try not to hold >that against them :) ). They do data recovery on various types of media >(hard drive, removable cartridge, etc.) and can handle UNIX variants as >well as Windoze. You can either send the drive in to their repair center >or they can do an on-site recovery. You can go to their web site for more >information, but they don't have any prices quoted on the web site (you >must explicitly request a price quote from them). This unfortunately does >not bode well (i.e. it's gonna cost you). > >There is also DriveSavers (http://www.drivesavers.com/). > >Both OnTrack and Drivesavers ahve been highly recommended. There are >other companies out there, though, to find them go to the following page >at Yahoo: > >http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Computers/Services/Data >_Recovery/ > >Hope this helps, and good luck. My personal recommendation is that it >would be a LOT cheaper (in terms of both time and money) to just start >from scratch. :( > >AND OF COURSE, IT IS ALWAYS BEST TO MAKE BACKUPS!!!!!!!!!! >--- >Donald Burr <dburr@pobox.com>-Member The FreeBSD Project| PGP: Your >*NEW* WWW HomePage: http://more.at/dburr/ ICQ #16997506 | right to >Address: P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 | 'Net privacy. >Phone: (805) 957-9666 FAX: (800) 492-5954 | USE IT. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Nataraj Dasgupta Philip Morris Incorporated, Network Operations Monitor/Analyst, World intranet HQ, Rye Brook, NY. Email : ndasgupt@bridgeport.edu _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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