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<DIV></DIV>Thanks for the information. I passed this along. BTW, my friend told me that recovery of a 40 gig hard drive, regardless of the amount of data actually on the disk, is about $600. This makes the time and effort required for regular back ups look very in expensive.<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message from Paul Gray <gray@cs.uni.edu>: -------------- <BR><BR><BR>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- <BR>> Hash: SHA1 <BR>> <BR>> On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 05:25:00PM +0000, rbsquared@mchsi.com wrote: <BR>> > Does anyone have a recommendation for data recovery service that could <BR>> recovery data from a crashed ( bad bearings) hard drive. The person is most <BR>> interested in recovering photos, mp3s, and some quicken data. As always, price <BR>> is an object. <BR>> <BR>> Have you considered purchasing a duplicate drive and swapping the platters? <BR>> <BR>> It's a delicate process, prone to errors, but if you're outsourcing the <BR>> recovery it won't be cheap. <BR>> <BR>> - -Paul <BR>> (who recently recovered an 80GB laptop drive by swapping platters -- pictures <BR>> available.) <BR>> - -- <BR>> Pau
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