On Wednesday 30 May 2007, sean wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Sunday 27 May 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: > >> On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 09:26 -0400, sean wrote: > >>> I have a Windows XP driver here that belongs to a friend that > >>> just crashed. > >>> > >>> I am trying to figure out if there is some way I can force the > >>> drive to > >>> mount on my system so that I can get some data off it for her. > >>> > >>> Not having much luck, would anyone have any tips as to how I > >>> might be able to make this happen? > >> > >> If the drive experienced a head crash, then there is pretty much > >> nothing you can do. > > > > Wrong. > > > > If the drive suffered a head crash, you would be amazed what data > > recovery experts can do. > > They are very expensive, if I recall correctly?
If you mean expensive as in the price tag is a largeish number, then the answer is yes. But some data is priceless. One of our notebooks in the office had a disk crash two months back, no backups. The final cost was 50% the price of a new high end notebook, the cost of never getting that data back ever again was the loss of a 7 figure contract. For us, it was dirt cheap :-) If your friend needs to get back data that means something to them but is otherwise not valuable, then they might be in for a shock alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
