Greg Shafritz wrote: > Professional data recovery would seem to be my only route, right?
Professional recovery may or may not be the only option depending on what is actually wrong. There are quite a few programs out there that can scan the bare data on the drive and recreate the files. Having said this, I have used Total Recall before (recommend to me by Western Digital, for a Western Digital drive). Are you holding your breath? It cost me $5,000 to get back 200 GB of data from 2 WD 120 GB drives in a RAID 0 array. It bit hard! They do have other options that are a lot less expensive - for example, I could have gotten back 2 GB of stuff for a few hundred. In my case, that wasn't enough. The nice thing about Total Recall, is they have a level 5 clean room, and can take the platters out and get the data off the platters directly if there is no other way. I can't imagine how expensive that would be, but at least its possible. You have my sympathy! www.totalrecall.com They also have software you can download to see what it can do as well. If its mechanical, sending it to them may be the only option, but if it's a matter of a large chuck of surface area being screwed up, that should be able to get some of it back. You don't pay for the software unless it can help. --> Russ -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
