Disk recovery services?

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David Morrison - 04 Nov 2007 10:52 GMT

I think I must have run over several black cats last week. I've lost
things, been hurt by things and the guy who was to install my new
kitchen is in hospital....

But that's only the small stuff...

Two hard disks died, one being the boot disk from my Mac with 250MB of
files. I think I have some of it backed up, but I don;t know where the
backup is. (I was flooded in June and most of my stuff is in storage.)

Anyway, I've tried Diskwarrior and it is not happy. Data Rescue at least
seems to be able to see things, but cannot get much back.

I'm thinking I might need to send it to a recovery service. I seem to
recall that there was one in Chatswood some years ago.

Has anyone had any experience with disk recovery? Did it recover what
you wanted? How much did it cost?

Thanks for any advice.

David

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Nigel - 04 Nov 2007 23:46 GMT

> I think I must have run over several black cats last week. I've lost
> things, been hurt by things and the guy who was to install my new
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> David

Bad luck indeed. Cant help with the data recovery or the luck (maybe
sacrifice some goats or virgins) but just a note on Diskwarrior - it can
take up to 10-12 hours to make its way through a bad disk (in extreme cases
of damage) but it will make it eventually. It doesn't tell you its doing
anything and looks like it has hung - a bad interface issue really. So
maybe you need to give it an overnight run, just in case.

Nigel

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Chris Brown - 04 Nov 2007 23:58 GMT

> I think I must have run over several black cats last week. I've lost
> things, been hurt by things and the guy who was to install my new
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>
> David

last time I needed to look at disc recovery, it required a clean room
drive dissembly, and rebuild of the platters into a new drive... the
quote was c. $1000, but that was 6 years ago

regards

Chris

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20cents - 05 Nov 2007 05:42 GMT

> I think I must have run over several black cats last week. I've lost
> things, been hurt by things and the guy who was to install my new
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>
> David

David,

Bad luck on the disks.
Some years ago I had a similar need and was sorted out by Xyber Computer
Service Centre, 28 Chandos St ST LEONARDS (02-9906-7976).
Cannot remember the cost but I was happy to get my data recovered.
Hope this helps.

regards,
Darryl
(no association with Xyber apart from being a satisfied customer)

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Disk recovery services?