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More info?)
I should have added that FILERECOVERY recovers the files (assuming they are
recoverable) in about thirty seconds, and presents an Explorer view of the
entire drive for you to pick from. It will also search for specific files
or folders if you can't find them in the Explorer view. It probably won't
be able to recover a mechanical disaster where something is physically
broken.
David Kelsey
Al Dykes wrote:
> In article <OxOzAfClEHA.3544@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl>,
> David Kelsey <david_kelseyNO@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> There is a program called FILERECOVERY, available from one or
>> another of the CNET, ZDNet or whatever. It recovered my files from
>> a drive that wouldn't boot, and reported two bad sectors when tested
>> by the Seagate online software. You can do a free trial with
>> Filerecovery, and if it does the business, you can then pay them
>> about £33 for the full program which enables you to save the
>> recovered files to another drive. When my hard drive crashed, I was
>> advised that it was non-recoverable, even though the people who said
>> this knew nothing about my drive, so don't give up and spend lots of
>> money until you have tried FR. You will probably need a new hard
>> drive anyway, so nothing will be wasted. Or you can recover to a CD-
>> RW or DVD, or a big Zip, or whatever you have in the way of storage.
>> If you can't boot, then you will have to get the new drive first,
>> and install XP or whatever on it.
>>
>> Good luck! Come back if you want to talk about it.
>>
>> David Kelsey
>>
>> BAR wrote:
>>> There are dozens of companies allover the world..just do a 'google'
>>> and find one enar your country, city, town or suburb!
>>>
>>> The charge for this is generally around US $300 to perform a test
>>> and recover. Even if they only get one document.
>>>
>>> "any info would be appreciated" wrote:
>>>
>>>> A friend of mine had a hard drive crash and lost some
>>>> important documents.You guessed it he didn't back up.
>>>> My question does anyone have a e-mail or a snail address
>>>> for a company that can retrieve things on his hard drive?
>>
>>
>
> I recommend ontrack.com. They've been around for years.
>
>
> A client of ours used them to recover a server disk crash. Recovery
> would have been unnecessary if the client had put tapes
> in the tape drive he paid for.