[H-GEN] Re: Assistance Required

[Rick Phillips]

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Have been meaning to reply to this for a couple of days.  There is a crowd
in Sydney called P2 Computing who make it a specialty of recovering trashed
drives.  They are expensive but do the job.  You will be required to pay
$200 via credit card up front and then any further costs from there.  It
becomes a commercial decision as to whether you go ahead with this.

Failing that - try these little tricks that work for us.  These won't work
if the logic circuitry has blown.  P2 Computing will replace that circuitry
as part of their recovery.

Try this - Put the drive in the fridge for a couple of hours.  Have Ghost
handy and a spare drive.  After the crashed drive has cooled substantially,
hook it up and without delay, run Ghost and attempt to clone the drive.
Turn off the stop on errors option before hand (can't remember the true
nomenclature from the program).  If that fails, bump the drive ONCE firmly
on a desk and try again.

Don't mess about too long as everything you do will trash the drive further.

We have recovered quite a few drives this way.

Regards,

Rick Phillips

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From: Majordomo [mailto:majordom at caliburn.humbug.org.au]On Behalf Of
Raymond Smith
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:10 PM
To: general at lists.humbug.org.au
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Re: Assistance Required


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On 27 Mar 2002, Jason Henry Parker wrote:
> Raymond Smith <zzrasmit at uqconnect.net> writes:
> [CD backups]
> > I agree that it would not be useful for a 30Gb backup but for a small
> > business with less than 100Mb of data the CD-ROM is the easier, more
cost
> > effective approach. Hell, I would probably keep going until my data took
> > up three quarters of a disc and then start looking into tape drive
> > solutions, or maybe DVD.
>
> Why stop when the CD-ROM gets 3/4 full?  I'm assuming you'd do that to
> get in early before the backups got too large to fit on one CD, but
> you've left it a bit ambiguous.

Sorry, what I meant was that I wouldn't bother looking at alternatives
until the CD-ROM hit three quarters full. While I was looking I would be
happily backing up to the CD-ROM until it was, indeed, full :-). My
experiences are based on those of my father (some rental accounts) and
Aunt (small house stumping business). In both cases we are talking single
PC, small number of relevant files.

Cheers,

Raymond
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