[ale] Hard Drive data recovery services? (Ron Frazier (ALE))

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> From: "Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com>
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Cc:
> Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 11:37:18 -0400
> Subject: Re: [ale] Hard Drive data recovery services?
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> 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
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> Better Living Through Bitmaps
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> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 8:05 AM, Ken Cochran <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>
>> > To: 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>
>> > >> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>> > >> Subject: Re: [ale] Hard Drive data recovery services?
>> > >>
>> > >> I have heard good things about Scott Moulton's 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>
>> 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. 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>
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