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On Wednesday 30 May 2007, sean wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Sunday 27 May 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: |
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> >> On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 09:26 -0400, sean wrote: |
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> >>> I have a Windows XP driver here that belongs to a friend that |
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> >>> just crashed. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> I am trying to figure out if there is some way I can force the |
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> >>> drive to |
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> >>> mount on my system so that I can get some data off it for her. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> Not having much luck, would anyone have any tips as to how I |
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> >>> might be able to make this happen? |
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> >> |
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> >> If the drive experienced a head crash, then there is pretty much |
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> >> nothing you can do. |
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> > |
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> > Wrong. |
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> > |
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> > If the drive suffered a head crash, you would be amazed what data |
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> > recovery experts can do. |
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> They are very expensive, if I recall correctly? |
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If you mean expensive as in the price tag is a largeish number, then the |
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answer is yes. |
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But some data is priceless. One of our notebooks in the office had a |
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disk crash two months back, no backups. The final cost was 50% the |
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price of a new high end notebook, the cost of never getting that data |
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back ever again was the loss of a 7 figure contract. For us, it was |
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dirt cheap :-) |
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If your friend needs to get back data that means something to them but |
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is otherwise not valuable, then they might be in for a shock |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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