Leslie, > My two-week-old sole hard drive has failed. > > I know this is more than a software thing, because the drive's not found > either during boot-up or by fdisk. The clincher is that it keeps making a > sound like the sound that you hear from someone's iPod earphones when you're > sitting next to them! > > I believe that there are places that recover data from dead hard drives. > > Could anyone tell me the name of any reputable places in Sydney that do such > a thing? Is the process expensive? Would it matter that the data was created > using Linux? >
I used this crowd a number of years ago. Very good but expensive. http://www.p2.com.au/index.html This crowd contacted me last week. They don't charge if they can't recover but are based in Melbouren. I have not used them at all. http://www.techneticsdata.com.au Good luck. Rick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
