Need a disk recovery vendor

[Michael Sammartano]

I would be willing to help out, that is my specialty. Contact me off 
list. volinaz at 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
>
>
>
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