[Cialug] Opinions on Data Recovery services?

[Kevin C. Smith]

Spinrite is good stuff, however it doesn't work (in my experience) 
when the first sector is damaged. I did try it though.

I've tried all my tricks, so I'm looking for a local outfit that 
does this professionally. 

On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 23:59 -0500, Matt Patterson wrote:
> I've never tried it myself, but I've heard of people having some luck 
> with spinrite.
> 
> Linux Journal Review: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7684
> Homepage: http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm
> 
> -Matt
> 
> 
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Kevin C. Smith wrote:
> 
> > Any suggestions for a local data recover service?
> >
> > I had a hard drive fail. I think the first sector and/or the
> > first partition is hosed. As luck would have it the backup
> > was also corrupted (it has a local tape backup). I'm glad I
> > backed up the critical DB on it in two locations, so I've got
> > that. ;P
> >
> > This is the way my past two weeks have been going. I expect a small
> > black hole to appear and get the rest by the end of the month.
> >
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