[H-GEN] Assistance Required

[David Jericho]

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On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 04:47:33PM +1000, Frank Brand wrote:
> Drive is a Quantum 40 Gb 7200 AT Fireball Plus AS, it is about 9 months old
> (irrelevant except in regard to warranty claim). When the computer is
> attempting to boot the hard drive is detected but will not boot...the drive
> clicks...I expect this is the read/write arm trying to find an initialising
> position.

<snippage>

> My question to the list is ... Has anyone had such an experience, are there
> any possibilities I have not thought of, is there any advice that can be
> offerred (I am a bit concerned about the cleanliness of the environment if I
> need to open the drive)? What companies might be best to refer this problem
> to in Brisbane? The only clean room I know of is in Melbourne.

I'm quite surprised no one has mentioned it so far, but there are
actually companies that do data recovery off broken media.

http://www.datarecovery.com.au/ is one group that I know of, and there
are a few others. 

It'll cost you, but given the alternative of the unemployment queue
(been there - not again thanks), I'd be ready to hand over the money.

-- 
David Jericho

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