[olug] Rescue CD

[Daniel Linder]

On Mon, March 19, 2007 18:54, swanpoint at cox.net wrote:
> thanks for the replies; after putting a full day into this it looks like
> if the data is to be recovered, it will have to be at the expense of some
> real $$$. Any experience out there with "clean room" professional
> services? I hear $500 -- $4,000 estimates being thrown about. These iMac
> OEM Maxtors have a reputation.

Is this HDD suffereing from a "click-of-death" sort of failure?  Or was it
OS/Filesystem related?

If it's of the hardware variety, you might want to investigate "Spin Rite"
(http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm).  I used a copy to resurrect an in-laws
computer HDD just long enough to get their files transferred to the new
drive.  It's only

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