I've used the freezer trick twice, with success.
Frank From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] On Behalf Of Morgan Blackthorne Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:26 PM To: john boris Cc: t...@lopsa.org Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] Looking for Hard drive recovery in Philadelphia area Chances are the disk probably cooled down overnight if you had it unplugged. As it heats up, it may fail again. Back up the most critical files first, then try to do a full copy of the disk; that way even if the full backup fails you've got the most critical files. We once ran a drive inside a dorm fridge at the ISP I worked at to be able to recover data off of it. A friend of mine was an editor at a PC magazine and wrote up a short article about it. -- ~*~ StormeRider ~*~ "Every world needs its heroes [...] They inspire us to be better than we are. And they protect from the darkness that's just around the corner." (from Smallville Season 6x1: "Zod") On why I hate the phrase "that's so lame"... http://bit.ly/Ps3uSS On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 10:11 AM, john boris <jbori...@gmail.com <mailto:jbori...@gmail.com> > wrote: Just to close this out. I made a call to Datasavers and the cost would be in the range of $740 to $2700 based on what was wrong. After telling my boss that and reviving him I gave the hard drive one more shot and got it back up and running. I must have done something right overnight. Anyway I kicked off the backup and had a heart attack when it said it would take over a day to do the back up. I don't have the best backup system in my office. I will though after this mess up. Thanks for the replies. On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Ted Cabeen <t...@cabeen.org <mailto:t...@cabeen.org> > wrote: Even here in Southern California, we mail our drives to DriveSavers. I'd just mail the drive to one of the major national services. --Ted On 3/10/2014 3:43 PM, john boris wrote: > I am looking for hard drive recovery service recommendations in the > Philadelphia area. I did a Google seacrh and found a few places but was > wondering if anyone on the list has used any in the area and can > reccommend one. > > TIA > > -- > John J. Boris Sr. > Member of LOPSA Board of Directors > League of Professional System Administrators (lopsa.org <http://lopsa.org> <http://lopsa.org/>) > > > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org <mailto:Tech@lists.lopsa.org> > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org <mailto:Tech@lists.lopsa.org> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/ -- John J. Boris, Sr. Online Services www.onlinesvc.com <http://www.onlinesvc.com> _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
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