[ale] Hard Drive data recovery services?

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Depending on how important the remainder was, there's still a likelihood 
that Spinrite could recover it.  You'd have to be willing to pay $ 89 to 
try it and get the refund if it didn't work for you.

Sincerely,

Ron

On 5/30/2013 10:14 AM, Pete Hardie wrote:
> Just a follow-up on my HDD recovery saga
>
> I was able to use ddrescue and a borrowed USB-SATA cable to access the 
> drive, and recovered all but 17M of 500G, if I understand the output 
> of ddrescue.  I'm in the process of dropping the recovered photos, etc 
> to DVD so that we have real backup copies, and my wife can restore 
> those that she wants on her machine at her leisure.
>
> Thanks again for all the pointers and advice - it looks like I'm able 
> to get most if not all of what we thought was lost.
>
>
>
> Pete Hardie
> --------
> Better Living Through Bitmaps
>
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Ken Cochran <kwc at theworld.com 
> <mailto:kwc at theworld.com>> wrote:
>
>     In this (my) particular case it was good data on the media but
>     a complete no-spin & the filesystems were (Free)BSD.  Either
>     the spindle motor or its associated electronics had failed.
>     I was not exactly comfortable with the idea of recovering
>     *that* myself...  -kc
>
>     > Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 11:11:02 -0400
>     > From: Ted Wood <wood at gatech.edu <mailto:wood at gatech.edu>>
>     > To: ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>
>     > Subject: Re: [ale] Hard Drive data recovery services?
>     >
>     > On 05/23/2013 10:44 AM, Ken Cochran wrote:
>     > > Heard good things of them too (Moulton).
>     > > (Excellent) personal experience with Cherry, In Marietta.
>     > > Evidently we're fortunate to have some *good* local choices.
>     > >
>     > > -kc
>     > >
>     > >> Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 10:20:38 -0400
>     > >> From: Mike Ivey <miketech.jr at gmail.com
>     <mailto:miketech.jr at gmail.com>>
>     > >> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>>
>     > >> Subject: Re: [ale] Hard Drive data recovery services?
>     > >>
>     > >> I have heard good things about Scott Moulton's
>     myharddrivedied.com <http://myharddrivedied.com>. I have
>     > >> not used him personally, but I have been to a few of his
>     talks. This guy
>     > >> really knows his stuff.
>     > >>
>     > >> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Pete Hardie
>     <pete.hardie at gmail.com <mailto:pete.hardie at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > >>
>     > >>> ISTR that the topic of data recovery has come up before on
>     the list.  Does
>     > >>> anyone have recommendations for good places to get data
>     recovered off a
>     > >>> laptop drive?  The wife's laptop appears to have crapped out
>     and she did
>     > >>> not have the latest set of photos backed up
>     > >>>
>     > >>> TIA,
>     > >>>
>     > >>> Pete Hardie
>     > >>> --------
>     > >>> Better Living Through Bitmaps
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>     > I'll throw another +1 in for myhaddrivedied.com
>     <http://myhaddrivedied.com>. Scott is a great guy
>     > and he really knows his stuff. If he can't recover it, chances
>     are it's
>     > not going to be recoverable.
>     >
>     > On a side note (and some may call me crazy) I've had good luck using
>     > SpinRite (yes, the SpinRite from Steve Gibson of Security Now!
>     fame).
>     > Say what you will but I've used it on several occasions and had
>     it get a
>     > disk working well enough to read the data off to another medium.
>     Scott
>     > will tell you it's a waste of money and it might cause more harm
>     than
>     > good (in some cases this may be true) but I've had luck with it so I
>     > thought it was worth a mention.
>     >
>     > </$0.02>
>     >
>     > --
>     > Ted Wood <wood at gatech.edu <mailto:wood at gatech.edu>>
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