What I did was removed the hard drive, placed it into an external
enclosure (USB). Then on another PC, ran ACRONIS Disk Imager. It
can create a duplicate image on another drive of the hard drive.
What is nice about it (oppsed to Norton ghost) is it will ignore
drive errors (bad tracks and such).
After my drive crashed, I only lost a few files.
www.acronis.com (they have both a linux and Windows file format version)
PS. How my hard drive crashed was an interesting story...
I stopped using my laptop as mobile, and sat it above my monitor on
one of those stands, problem was it was tilted about 30 degrees. After
about 9 months or so, I moved the laptop to a 0 degree surface. The
hard drive was so used to spinning at the old angle it wouldn't work
and crashed. When I was recovering the driver, I had to actually hold
the bad drive at a 30 degree angle for anything to be able to be read.
so...if you use your laptop as a desk PC for any extended period of time
(mine was apx 9 months), make sure it's a flat 0 degree surface.
PPS. Ever since then, I backup my laptop weekly now :) using the imager
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry Hiscock
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 12:25 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: [U2] OT: Hard drive failure
I have a client whose hard drive in his laptop has failed.
Naturally, he
has no backups. Does anyone have any experience with any of
the various
data recovery services, and can you make any recommendations?
Thanks,
Larry Hiscock
Western Computer Services
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