data recovery service, catastrophic failure

[Lynn Newton]

> Have you removed the new PCI card? It could be that the USB card is now
> reserving hda/sda. You might be able to adjust that in the BIOS as well.

Yes, that was the first thing I did. Thanks.

I'm buried in helpful suggestions.

> I would reiterate what others said and suggest getting the drive to
> another box, but not booting from it.
>
> To that end I recommend keeping lots of types of converters on hand.
>
> For instance, http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020&cat=CBL.
>
> You should arrange for enough filespace to copy your entire drive. Twice
> that if at all possible.
>
> Try dd ( or the 'can handle I/O problems dd', but I always forget what it
> is and searching for 'dd' is rather pointless ) first.
>
> If you can get a dd image, copy it and experiment on that copy.
>
> I think you know how to mount the image via loopback.
>
> If my 2 TB of new disk were in already I'd offer to let you try to copy
> your data over to that :).
>
> As to services, Red Seven does drive recovery, but I think they farm it
> out once it gets beyond a certain point. I think that point is lower than
> what I know you know.
>
> DataDoctors also does drive recovery. I don't know if they farm out the
> hardware recovery methods as Red Seven does. One PLUG member works there,
> but I'm not certain he's allowed to mention what their internal mechanisms
> are. My knowledge of DataDoctors comes mostly from competition, so take
> whatever I say about them with a grain of salt and then add some doubt :).
>
> Hardware recovery tools are mucho expensive, so it's quite possible that
> everybody in town farms that out to the same place.
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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Lynn David Newton
Phoenix, AZ