[ale] OT: HW failure

[Jeff Rose]

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 17:03:10 -0500
Greg Freemyer <freemyer-ml at NorcrossGroup.com> wrote:


> 
> I have to believe the drive is toast, but if the data is valuable to you
> our company can evaluate how expensive it would be to recover it.
> 
> The basic method is to replace your failed parts with good parts, then
> retrieve the data.  After the data is retrieved, the old/bad parts go
> back into the original drive.  (ie. The good parts are saved for another
> day.)
> 
> As you can see, this involves technicians time and possibly clean-rooms,
> so you have to really want the data.
> 
> Greg
> -- 
> Greg Freemyer
> 
Luckily I was able to get all my data.  I do regular backups which is a life saver.  But thanks for the offer.