Data recovery

[Mark Morgan]

I'd suggest trying to bring up the drive under a couple of different OSs
first.  Different OSs and filesystem drivers have different failure
tolerances.  Linux, FreeBSD and windows are the ones I'd suggest trying.
When I last needed to do that (8+ years ago), FreeBSD had the greatest
failure tolerance, but that's very likely to have changed since then...

Mark.

On 3 September 2010 10:56, Mike Whiting <mail at mikejw.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Hey guys,
>
> Can anyone recommend any good data recovery services?  My friend dropped
> his external hard drive and now it seems to have become my responsibility to
> 'fix it' because some of my bands songs are on there.  I'm not sure what
> exactly is wrong.  The drive seems to gets noticed but that's about it.  I
> suspect if there's anything that can be done with it at all it would involve
> removing the platter and rehousing it.
>
> Any insights appreciated.
>
> Mike W
> --
> http://www.mikejw.co.uk
>
>