[olug] failed hard drive, ntfs partitioned (probably) data recovery

[Daniel Linder]

You might want to point your friend to SpinRite -- I've heard it can do
quite a bit with semi-functional HDDs...

http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm

Dan

> <quote who="Matthew Anderson">
>> I have a friend who recently had a drive fail in a windows 2000
>> desktop computer.  It was probably partitioned ntfs (he's not
>> positive).  There is at least some data on there he feels it's quite
>> important to recover.

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