data recovery service, catastrophic failure

[Nathan Aubrey]

On Monday 02 April 2007, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 12:23:10PM -0700, Lynn Newton wrote:
> > Never mind *why* it happened for now. I want my files back.
>
> Do you have any way of yanking the precious drive and putting it in
> another, working machine? No need to boot from it, just get it in a
> working machine. If you can, then you may be able to get everything off
> of it yourself. If you can get to a Linux machine then it'll obviously
> be easier. If not, check out sysresccd.org.
>
> You may be tempted to keep trying things with the old machine, but since
> it's being cranky and you don't really know why, I recommend getting the
> drive out of it ASAP.

Ditto that, get it to someone else with a linux box or even windows so you can 
boot with a Knoppix disc, just so you can verify that drive is working. I 
would bet your motherboard is panicking, which is why your USB failed in the 
first place. Your drive is probably perfectly good.

nathan

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