<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">In most cases a rather inexpensive software based recovery tool works really well for a quick salvage.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The easiest and most effective one for a PC's I've found is SpinRight from <A href="http://www.grc.com">www.grc.com</A>.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Dave</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 4, 2006, at 8:37 AM, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">My wife's laptop hard drive died last week... I've tried all the usual</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">suspects to recover any data but no luck.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>There are some documents</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(mostly images) that wern't backed up that we'd like to recover.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Can</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">anyone recommend a data recovery service that could help out here?</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Jeff</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>