[olug] failed hard drive, ntfs partitioned (probably) data recovery

[Bill Brush]

Well there's Drive Savers, but they're probably going to fall in the
too expensive category.  They're very good though and if there are any
recoverable bits on the drive they will get them.

My thought is he's probably out of luck unless he's willing to cough
up some money.

Bill

On 7/29/06, Matthew Anderson <manders2k.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a friend who recently had a drive fail in a windows 2000
> desktop computer.  It was probably partitioned ntfs (he's not
> positive).  There is at least some data on there he feels it's quite
> important to recover.
>
> At present, he reports he has the drive hooked up via USB adapter to
> his power book, and is running a piece of software called "Data
> Rescue II".  So far he hasn't recovered any data (50+ hours of
> operation).
>
> What other options might he have?  Any recommendations on data
> recovery services which are both good and not OUTRAGEOUSLY
> expensive?  Other thoughts (except do backups -- I already told him
> that)?