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Caroline Marold - 18 Jan 2005 17:55 GMT

Do you know of good data recovery services that don't
charge two arms to grab info off a PC?
And yes Carole, I am afraid all my hard work is sitting
inside that now defunct computer. I was in the process
of backing things up when it crashed for good. All was
dragged onto the DVD and when I hit burn -- big blue
screen of death. Now all I get is the black screen...
I should have sent you that stuff long ago. grrrrr
Duckie

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firechief - 18 Jan 2005 21:43 GMT

> Do you know of good data recovery services that don't
> charge two arms to grab info off a PC?
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> I should have sent you that stuff long ago. grrrrr
> Duckie

I had that problem when the power supply in one of the
computers went belly up. BUT -- the data still resided
on the hard drive. Removed the HD and visited a buddy
who connected the HD to one of his computers and
burnt the data to a CD. Then I was able to transfer it
(what I wanted) to the new computer.

Total cost: Treated him to lunch one afternoon. <g>

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Caroline Marold - 19 Jan 2005 06:19 GMT

Well, it is going to work with John tomorrow to let the
tech guys play with it. But John seems to think it is
not the power supply but the disc itself. :( Here is
hoping he is wrong. I did talk with a company in Woburn
that repaired my mac and they do pc's as well. They
said they might be able to recover things but ...
So I am pinning some hope on tomorrow. Part of the
problem is that it is a laptop and grabbing a disc is
not as easy as on a non laptop. The good news is that
almost everything I save is stored in a folder called
My Documents. I refuse to let Word or anything else
save to a folder not in My Documents which means it is
easy to look for and even easier to save. yeah, yeah, I
know... I should have saved monthly but I am somehow an
idiot. Let's blame it on the gimpy knee. That is my
story and I am sticking with it.
Duckie

>>Do you know of good data recovery services that don't
>>charge two arms to grab info off a PC?
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> Total cost: Treated him to lunch one afternoon. <g>

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A Barna - 18 Jan 2005 22:24 GMT

> Do you know of good data recovery services that don't charge
> two arms to grab info off a PC?
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> blue screen of death. Now all I get is the black screen... I
> should have sent you that stuff long ago. grrrrr Duckie

Hi Duckie,

It doesn't sound like you need a data recovery service. They
specialize in crashed hard drives & it sounds like your mother
board, the processor or something else died, not the hard drive.
9 out of 10 time what you described indicates a bad power supply.

If that is the case all you would need is to have the hard drive
put into another computer so the data can be copied off it.

If you are going to get a new PC to replace the dead one or get
the old one repaired just use the old hard drive.

Just check your local yellow pages for a store that builds &
repairs computers.

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firechief - 19 Jan 2005 00:25 GMT

Alex wrote to Caroline:

> It doesn't sound like you need a data recovery service.
> If you are going to get a new PC to replace the dead one
> or get the old one repaired just use the old hard drive.

Very wise advice. That old hard drive could become D:\
(a "slave") in a new computer and all her data is saved.

I had 2 computers with 3 hard drives. I moved the HD with
the most important data into the new computer as a "slave."

I could have installed a second controller and added 2 more
HD's E:\ and F:\ (from the computer with the bad power supply),
but I instead had the data from those burnt to a CD and then
copied only what I wanted.

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Don Kirkman - 20 Jan 2005 21:07 GMT

It seems to me I heard somewhere that firechief wrote in article
<VShHd.2009$ry.717@fed1read05>:

> Alex wrote to Caroline:

>> It doesn't sound like you need a data recovery service.
>> If you are going to get a new PC to replace the dead one
>> or get the old one repaired just use the old hard drive.

> Very wise advice. That old hard drive could become D:\
> (a "slave") in a new computer and all her data is saved.

> I had 2 computers with 3 hard drives. I moved the HD with
> the most important data into the new computer as a "slave."

> I could have installed a second controller and added 2 more
> HD's E:\ and F:\ (from the computer with the bad power supply),
> but I instead had the data from those burnt to a CD and then
> copied only what I wanted.

As a riff on this, a few times I've temporarily moved a hard drive into
a new machine either as a C: drive to get things started or to transfer
data to a new larger disk which will become the permanent second disk in
the new machine.

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Adelle - 19 Jan 2005 04:31 GMT

I have a, acquaintance who has done this kind of stuff, but I'm not sure
whether he is still doing it. He's in Andover. Am checking to see whether he
is still taking these kind of jobs and what he charges.

Adelle

> Do you know of good data recovery services that don't charge two arms to
> grab info off a PC?
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> I should have sent you that stuff long ago. grrrrr
> Duckie

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Don Kirkman - 20 Jan 2005 21:07 GMT

It seems to me I heard somewhere that Adelle wrote in article
<z_adncM5tt3kf3DcRVn-gw@comcast.com>:

>I have a, acquaintance who has done this kind of stuff, but I'm not sure
>whether he is still doing it. He's in Andover. Am checking to see whether he
>is still taking these kind of jobs and what he charges.

>> Do you know of good data recovery services that don't charge two arms to
>> grab info off a PC?
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>> blue screen of death. Now all I get is the black screen...
>> I should have sent you that stuff long ago. grrrrr

For anyone with the courage to try to recover data for themselves, I've
used GetDataBack pretty successfully--well over 90% of many gigabytes of
programs and data files was recovered successfully after a malfunction
wiped out all the directories on a really large hard disk and mangled
some on a slightly smaller one. It's fairly expensive, though. Much
more information at www.runtime.org; the company also offers data
recovery for non-do it yourselfers, but I don't know how their pricing
is. They also have a line of related utilities for file management.

The program comes in two versions, one for FAT files (older Windows
type) and one for NTFS files (NT, 2000, and XP type).

I have no interest in this company beyond using their application.

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