[olug] [OT] My friend has a broken hard drive

[Kevin]

I just used SpinRite[1] and was pretty happy with it. Roughly same
situation; system failed, couldn't get a disk image due to HD errors.
This fixed it so that I could get a disk image. As a side benefit, the
section of the drive that consistently failed at filesystem access now
works properly.

[1] http://www.spinrite.info $89, download a 170k file. Run the .exe
and it will create a bootable floppy/USB/CD with its own FreeDOS
system that you then boot into and run for however long it takes.

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 21:43, Abraham <muteki.abraham at gmail.com> wrote:
> My friend called me this evening to let me know that his hard drive
> (from the mid-80s) has finally failed. It was in a Macintosh G3 or G4.
> He's been quoted some fairly unreasonable (I think) prices to get the
> files off, and I seem to remember some folks in this group having some
> expertise in that area. Are there any recommendations as to a
> trustworthy place that will retrieve his files? And how much should he
> expect to pay for something like that?
>
> Thanks,
> Abraham Serafino
>
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