Ed lawson wrote:
> Any suggestions of NH repair shops to check system/HD, repair and > determine if recovery of bad drive feasible at reasonable price and/or > best nearby recovery shop? There have been some great recommendations so far. Go for those if you can. If you can't... I often get customers who are so po they can't pay attention. One had a hard drive failure and it was relatively minor by comparison to the stories others have told. The partition in question usually wouldn't mount no matter how I tried (Win, Linux, various recovery CD's, different machines, etc.). Sometimes though it would mount. Once. I could get one file or so and then ...nothing. The customer was clear that I was his last resort, as he couldn't afford any of the outside services I recommended to him. If I couldn't recover his data (6+ years of work, some 15 years of archived emails...), that was it and he'd have to start over. He was quite devastated at the prospect... As a last resort I tried the old wives' tale of freezing the drive. I stuck it in the freezer in my shop for an hour. Then I took it out, immediately wrapped it in a towel so it would stay cool and not form condensation. I rapidly plugged it into a physical drive copy machine and started a raw partition copy to a known-good, blank HDD of slightly more size. Miraculously it worked. I burned the data to a DVD and off he went. (In the mean time, I sold him a new HDD and installed it for him.) No, I normally wouldn't try something that questionable with most customers. This was an old friend and I know the work he had saved. I also made sure he knew that this might not work at all. He was OK with that. Like I said... his last resort. Just something else to think about. Brian -- --------------------------------------------------------------- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Proprietor: http://www.JustWorksNH.com | | Computers and Web Sites that JUST WORK | | Work: +1 (603) 484-1461 Home: +1 (603) 484-1469 | --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/