[olug] Help data recovery

Dan Linder dan at linder.org
Thu Nov 11 20:27:51 UTC 2010


Mark,

Can you tell us the state of the drive?  Is it seen by the BIOS at all?  If
so, does the BIOS see it correctly?  Does it spin up?  Does the system try
to boot and the OS only partially come up?

Dan

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 13:07, Mark Fischer <farkmischer at gmail.com> wrote:

> A friend of mine has experienced what I think is a hard drive crash with no
> backup.  Since he is in omaha and I am not he was asking me where to have
> it
> checked and the data recovered.  Since I live in lincoln I really don't
> know
> any of the omaha companies.  Anyone have any recommendations?  He got a
> quote from a company that I can't remember the name of now for 500 to 1000
> dollars.  Are any of those send away companies any good.  Thanks for your
> suggestions.


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