Dustin, I've had success recovering from corrupted and even reformatted drives with R Studio Data Recovery software http://www.r-studio.com/. Since you have already taken the drive for a spin, I would recommend giving this software a try before opening the drive. Give me a call if you have any questions. I have a system ready to give it a try if you like.
Minos Ponville, IT Consulting Phone: 225.252.2916 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dustin Puryear Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 10:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [brlug-general] Hard disk recovery 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
