Not sure on local places, but you could check out seagate's data recovery services: <a href="http://services.seagate.com/">http://services.seagate.com/</a><br><br>You can try using their data recovery software for free, and if it detects it can recover the data from the drive, you can then purchase it for $130. Not sure how this compares with other data recovery services, but I know other places can get pretty expensive (in the 1000's).<br>
<br>If you can, always make a copy of the drive and work on restoring data from the copy. You want to preserve the original disk as much as possible. The easiest way to make a 1:1 copy of a drive would be dd<br><br>dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb (sda = original disk, sdb = blank disk)<br>
<br>Good luck,<br>Andy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Mike Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbmiller@taxa.epi.umn.edu">mbmiller@taxa.epi.umn.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This question is about local places that can do data recovery work, so it<br>
would probably apply to any OS, but my friend with a problem today<br>
happened to be running Windows XP on a Dell laptop.<br>
<br>
What local computer pros might be able to get some data off of this HDD?<br>
Here's what happened:<br>
<br>
The Dell laptop's HDD had failed during the summer and the drive was<br>
repartitioned. Just the other day my friend left the laptop running and<br>
went for a cup of coffee. When she got back it had powered down, or was<br>
on standby, or was hibernating, or something. She went to press the power<br>
button but accidentally pressed the "Media Direct" button which is right<br>
next to the power button and looks just like it. Unfortunately, that<br>
small mistake marked the end of her working laptop. After that it<br>
wouldn't boot, Ubuntu Live CD couldn't mount the drive, and Windows XP<br>
install CD said that the drive needed to be reformatted.<br>
<br>
I got out BartPE and ran "chkdsk c: /r". It ran and when it was done I<br>
could look at the drive using Ubuntu Live CD, but I could not find any of<br>
her data. It still will not boot to Windows and says "NTLDR is missing".<br>
<br>
So who in the Twin Cities might be able to find some of her files?<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
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