I would be willing to help out, that is my specialty. Contact me off list. volinaz@cox.net I only charge when I produce results Mike Victor Odhner wrote: > I already posted this on aztechlist and am working some > of the referrals, but I wanted to see if anyone has a > Linux slant on the problem. > > A friend's year-old laptop seems to have lost its hard > drive. It started with failing to boot, but we could view > the NTFS directories when running under SystemRescueCD. > Very quickly it degenerated, and now any operation seems > to produce errors, so at least the directories or > allocation tables must be trashed. Or maybe he just lost > the electronics or seek controls. > > I don't know how to tell if a disk has crashed. > > He has a lot of family pictures on there, and is thinking of > looking for someone to try to recover the disk for him. > A partial recovery would be better than none, because > each individual image file stands alone. > > He got the PC at Comp USA and might go there, but I > sort of doubt this is something they do. We have a Data > Doctors on the corner and I think recoveries are part of > their business. > > The budget is fairly limited but may be enough. Any > recommendations or recent experiences with recovery > services would be greatly appreciated. > > Answers I've already received: > > The main recommendation has been for a product called > EasyRecovery Professional from OnTrack.com, which goes > for $499. If someone has a copy of this and would be > willing to run a recovery for me, it could be worth > some money ... I want to keep it above board so I'm not > looking for a free copy of that program. > > BootMaster Pro is $99.95 on a try-before-buy basis, but > may not address the kind of problem we're looking at. > Lost and Found from Symantec seems to be no longer > available. > > Thanks, > > Vic > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss