[off topic] Any londoners know a good 'puter repair place near the city/bishopsgate or docklands?

[Philippe Bruhat (BooK)]

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 03:35:16PM +0100, Denny wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 15:25 +0100, Francesco Nidito wrote:
> > 
> > Did you already try to remove the hd from the laptop, put it in an external
> > hd enclosure and try to recover data from there?
> 
> People with "almost 0 IT expertise" don't generally do that sort of
> thing.  I would assume that's why Aaron is asking for professional
> recommendations.
> 

But if it comes to this, and the disk is really in bad shape, I would
heartily recommend GNU ddrescue.

http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html

-- 
 Philippe Bruhat (BooK)

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