[mdlug] local data recovery service

[Robert Adkins]

	I (recently) spent roughly 3 hours lightly tapping on a laptop hard
drive as a ghosted it to a replacement laptop hard drive. The hard drive
would get "stuck" after a few moments of operation and if left idle, this
would cause the OS or whatever operation that was being performed to kick
out a fatal error message.

	The light tapping "loosened" up the drive and kept it spinning long
enough for the ghost process to play out.

	No, it wasn't fun.

	Would I do it again? If I must, then I must.

	Did it actually end up saving me time? Heck yeah, installing Windows
XP Pro from scratch, along with all the drivers, patches, applications and
then patches for those applications would have taken me nearly 5 hours.

	-Rob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org 
> [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Scott Webster Wood
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:07 PM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] local data recovery service
> 
> Yeah, I have a laptop drive that started 'clicking' - the 
> process made further complex with the fact it's a laptop 
> drive and thus the inner workings are smaller and some shops 
> can't deal with them.  Most places quoted me prices 
> 'starting' in the $600-1200 range and all had big disclaimers 
> that this was just a base quote.
> 
> SW
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com>
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 11:34:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] local data recovery service
> 
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Novak, Louis (L.M.) 
> <lnovak1 at ford.com> wrote:
> >
> >  More details:
> >
> >  Windows (sigh) won't boot. Boot reports hard disk error 7  
> The Dell 
> > disk utility reports read and time-out errors.
> >
> >  Using an Ubuntu Live CD the drive is visible but does not 
> mount  as a 
> > secondary drive.
> 
> That would imply an electronics or motor failure.  Fixing the 
> electronics requires a matching PCB.  Fixing the motor 
> requires a clean room ($$$$$$$).
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_recovery
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