On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 11:37, William Crabb wrote:
does anyone have a data recovery business that they have used for macs.
this HD is a hitachi 180g only 6 mths old, thanks Bill
Well you don't say what the value of the data is, nor do you indicate
how the data was lost, but I'd like to warn you that a data recovery
business is not going to be cheap.
If you are currently using the drive, turn the machine off, and don't
turn it on again until such time as you are ready to recover.
If the drive crashed, then you may be able to recover the data using a
drive of the same make/model, by going to a supplier and swapping out
the circuit board. (This *may* work.)
If you deleted a file/files, then recovery is completely dependent on
what you did next. If you kept using the drive, likely it is too late
already and no manner of money will get the data back - though some
recovery operations will recover data that was erased four of five
generations back.
If you deleted files and switched off the computer, then you *may* be
able to undelete the files, but I'd be going to visit someone who has a
copy of Ghost first.
Disk Warrior may be able to recover data also.
Finally, chances of getting data back under OS/X is poorer in my
experience than under OS7,8,9, not because the OS is broken, but because
there are many more processes writing to disk at any one time.
If all you're looking for is a name for a company, the name Disk Doctor
keeps popping up, I have no experience with them at all, but I hear
their charges are high, but of course that completely depends on the
value of the data lost.
Also, I should ask a silly question: What about your backups?
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