www.ontrack.com It will cost a lot, but apparently they're doing free diagnostics for Katrina victims, so you may be in luck.
-Tim Dustin Puryear wrote: > I have a new client from New Orleans that, lo and behold, found out > his IT > guy wasn't backing up his nightly SQL Server dumps. Well, they > retrieved the > server yesterday with an IDE drive. > > The question is: Can we get the guy's data back? > > He asked me to first try to spin it up. I was worried about that, but I'd > heard of some success stories from other consultants helping NOLA > clients. > So we plugged the drive into a new PC and started the system. The > drive spun > up but we got a disk error before any OS boot. After that I powered > down the > system. > > At this point I'm thinking we would need a hard-disk recovery expert. > I know > there are some, but I'm not familiar with this. Who should we use? How > much > will this cost? > > Any information is appreciated! > > --- > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 > http://www.puryear-it.com > > Author of "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > Download your free copy: > http://www.puryear-it.com/bestpractices.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
