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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4><SPAN class=424572104-03102007>Not a
DIY home job. Opening a drive should only be done in a clean room by
people wearing "bunny suits". Otherwise, microscopic dust particles will
get in and cause serious crashes almost immediately. None of it is easy
and every step requires a super-delicate touch.. especially handling the heads
to get them off the old platters and onto the new. This is why it's
expensive..</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=4><SPAN
class=424572104-03102007>Chuck</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces@mn-linux.org]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Subramanya Sastry<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 02, 2007 5:31
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Chris Barber<BR><B>Cc:</B>
tclug-list@mn-linux.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [tclug-list] [Off-Topic?]
recovering data from a hard drivewith mechanical failure<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>I
called them a few minutes back. They charge $100 for evaluation and then
give me a list of all files and folders that they recover ... I was told that
the mechanical failure recovery costs anywhere between $900 - $1900 ... So, I
decided it is not worth it. <BR><BR>Thanks for the tip regarding swapping
mechanical components ... I wonder how hard/easy that is ... I might be
willing to give it a try if I could lay my hand on a spare drive
..<BR><BR>Subbu.<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 10/2/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Chris
Barber</B> <<A href="mailto:stuff@cb1inc.com">stuff@cb1inc.com</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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<DIV text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff">Lucky for you Kroll Ontrack is located
in Eden Prairie and they are data recovery specialists. Not lucky for
you because they are not cheap. Last time I heard they charge based on
the amount of data they recover. In the event of a hardware failure,
one of their strategies is to track down the same drive model and swap the
mechanical components.<BR><BR>There web address is: <A
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com"
target=_blank>http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com</A>. If you do use
them, I'd be curious how they are? Expensive? Accurately?
Timely?<BR><BR>-Chris<BR><BR><BR>Subramanya Sastry wrote:
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<DIV><SPAN class=e id=q_11562cb3c529de33_1>Hi folks,<BR><BR>I just had the
misfortune of having my hard drive crash on me ... it seems like a
mechanical failure ... horrible clicking noises ...<BR><BR>There is some
data on there that I haven't backed up recently, plus, I had used this
drive as a backup for data on some other hard drive ... while this is not
catastrophic data loss, I was wondering if folks had any suggestions for
recovering data in the face of mechanical failure ... or what it might
cost if I paid some service for data recovery in the twin cities.
<BR><BR>It is a ext3 file system .. though not sure that matters ...
<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Subbu.<BR></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>