Oh my God, *me* put the platters into another drive? Hell no! If nothing else how do you protect the platters from dust? Anyway, I'm not experienced in this. We already have a quote coming in from OnTrack. I was just trying to see if anyone had any other leads.
Leave it to a tech list to suggest that I take out my screwdriver and torch. :-) --- 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: John Hebert To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:14 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Hard disk recovery Dustin, As others have suggested, a professional outfit like OnTrack is your safest bet. However, have you considered putting the platter in a duplicate model drive's housing? I've read that this is basically what any data recovery shop does. Also, was the drive submerged? What condition is it in now? Rust/corrosion over time is your biggest risk. John On 9/21/05, Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
