On Friday 28 November 2008 21:58:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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'd be grateful for any pointers. > > Thanks for reading this.
See the topic of Mary's talk :-) One of the local engineering companies just had a sydney company do recovery on a 4T raid array. The bill was just over $1 million. That was on working drives. I'd welcome learning better, but methinks the munnie value is $1000s not $100s. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
