On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 21:12 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Can someone recommend a professional data recovery service center (in USA) > to recover a ext3 filesystem on a 60 GB IDE laptop hard drive? The hard > drive belongs to a Toshiba Satellite p25-s507 laptop and has both Debian > Etch (ext3) and Windows XP (NTFS) installed. The documents on Linux are > more important than on the Windows. Luckily, there are backups available. > But I want to get a general idea of how tough it would have been if there > were no backups. > > The laptop used to work fine (no errors in the log files, no grinding > noises). One fine day when it was moved from one place to another and then > it stopped booting. The BIOS does not even recognize the hard drive. The > hard drive does not spin. I believe that the problem could be a bad > controller or a bad motor. So it needs to be taken into a clean room to get > the data out. > > Typically, how much does this kind of service cost assuming that the hard > drive is physically damaged and the problems are not due to some logical > problems? > > Did anyone have experience with any data recovery services who would have > dealt with such kind of problems before? Who is the cheapest? Who offers > the most reliable service? Any other suggestions are also welcome! Lots of money. Ontrack in about the only service I trust anymore. I've used the cheaper solution, only to discover they were using off-shoots of Ontrack's technology. IOW. they licensed the process. Have Fun. Also, Kamaraju, I believe I sent an e-mail to your gmail account. An update to your howto. -- greg@gregfolkert.net Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
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