[NLRS] OT: Hard Drive recovery?

[David Palm]

Speaking of booting from thumb drives, if that computer will do so you can
very easily set up a USB drive to boot into Puppy Linux (or some other
variant of Linux) and do a lot of hard drive snooping and potential data
recovery that you cannot do if the computer won't boot into Windows.  As
Zack said, if it's just the boot sectors that are corrupted, then booting
into Puppy Linux from a thumb drive will allow you to access the rest of the
hard drive and recover whatever data files you need.

http://www.puppylinux.org/main/index.php?file=Download%20Latest%20Release.htm

73,

David  W9HQ


On 6/29/10, Dr. Gerald N. Johnson <g369n849j at weather.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> Look at http://www.geraldj.networkiowa.com/papers/Recovery/ for
> slowcopy.c and slowcopy.exe. Its extremely tolerant to errors but it is
> sloooooow. It is a MS-DOS program, but most computers will boot to
> MS-DOS from a floppy if a floppy is present. I suppose it could be put
> on a thumb drive for the modern computer that will boot from a thumb drive.
>
> 73, Jerry, K0CQ
>
> On 6/29/2010 5:51 PM, Donn - WA2VOI/0 wrote:
> >
> >
> > I had a total HD failure in 2007.  I sent the HD to an outfit in Madison,
> WI who
> > tried to recover the data.  IIRC, the charge would have been ~$300
> (Windows)
> > with an additional ~$300 if they had to open up the bubble to try to
> recover the
> > data (they did).  No charge with no recovery.  UNFORTUNATELY, the surface
> of one
> > or more platters in the HD was scored, and they were unable to recover
> anything.
> >
> > So, yes, it sounds as if $1600 is out of line.
> >
> > 73 Donn
> > WA2VOI/0
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bruce Richardson"<w9fz at w9fz.com>
> > To: "NLRS Reflector"<NLRS at mailman.qth.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:44 PM
> > Subject: [NLRS] OT: Hard Drive recovery?
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Say, my sister has a dell laptop in which the HD won't boot. She
> >> went to Best Buy and their Geek Squad sent it (the HD) to their
> >> regional data recovery center in Louisville (with a clean room).
> >> They gave a quote of $1600 to recover the data off of it.
> >> That is beyond reasonable for her.
> >>
> >> Have any you been down this road and found anyplace that recovered
> >> your data with a price closer to what you thought reasonable??  I
> >> know, there are varying levels of damage requiring varying levels
> >> of response.
> >>
> >> My expectation was in the $400-$600 range.  What have your
> >> experiences been if you had to submit to professional data
> >> recovery?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Bruce Richardson W9FZ
> >>
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