Re: OT (surprise, surprise) Getting data off dead disk

["Richard Challis" <richard@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Graham

(BTW many thanks for the DDAR)

Is there a chance that google or another search engine has accessed these
pages? That is if they were on a public accessible server somewhere. I've
recovered a site for a friend before by typing in very specific search
strings and getting the page up and looking at the cache google keeps on
their own machine.

Failing that, what make and type of disc is it, someone here might have a
duplicate disc and be willing to lend you it for changing the onboard
controller to make the recovery. (after making a backup themselves!) I have
quite a variety of harddrives here.

Sorry for the obvious - I take it a floppy boot disc would fail to make the
machine boot to then allow you to try and access the disc? The machine
fails
during the post tests when you plug the disc in?

Regards

Rich

----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Howe" <graham@xxxxxxx>
To: "UKHA List (E-mail)" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 4:43 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] OT (surprise, surprise) Getting data off dead disk


> I have a bit of a problem at the moment, one of my machines has
suddenly
> failed to boot, with the problem being the hard disk. I have taken the
disk
> out and tried it as a slave in another machine, but doing that renders
the
> other machine unbootable. I can only assume that the disk is badly
damaged.
> Is there any way I am likely to be able to recover the data from this
disk
> myself, if not does anyone have any experience of data recovery firms.
> Fortunately the vast majority of my data is on my network machine
which
> backs up every night to a second disk. The only information I need off
this
> disk is a handful of html pages, so I am hopeful that if I can access
the
> disk then I have a pretty good chance of recovering the data. Any
> suggestions would be most welcome.
>
> Regards
>
> Graham
>
>
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