What I did was removed the hard drive, placed it into an external enclosure (USB). Then on another PC, ran ACRONIS Disk Imager. It can create a duplicate "image" on another drive of the hard drive. What is nice about it (oppsed to Norton ghost) is it will ignore drive errors (bad tracks and such).
After my drive crashed, I only lost a few files. www.acronis.com (they have both a linux and Windows file format version) PS. How my hard drive crashed was an interesting story... I stopped using my laptop as mobile, and sat it above my monitor on one of those stands, problem was it was tilted about 30 degrees. After about 9 months or so, I moved the laptop to a 0 degree surface. The hard drive was so used to spinning at the old angle it wouldn't work and crashed. When I was recovering the driver, I had to actually hold the bad drive at a 30 degree angle for anything to be able to be read. so...if you use your laptop as a desk PC for any extended period of time (mine was apx 9 months), make sure it's a flat 0 degree surface. PPS. Ever since then, I backup my laptop weekly now :) using the imager > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry Hiscock > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 12:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [U2] OT: Hard drive failure > > > I have a client whose hard drive in his laptop has failed. > Naturally, he > has no backups. Does anyone have any experience with any of > the various > data recovery services, and can you make any recommendations? > > Thanks, > > Larry Hiscock > Western Computer Services > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
