[muglo] Re: Recovering from a Hard Drive Crash

If it's important to her she could send it away to a data recovery
company. They can sometimes get data off drives partially melted in a
fire ;-).

I'm going to take a stab in the dark and guess that she's not a
computer wizard (given that she's running an iMac ;-) and I'd say
she'd be better off writing it off as a learning experience -- let
that be a lesson to all: ALWAYS back up your data, REGULARLY
(preferably by the millisecond using a RAID and a redundant network
server but very few of us have the technical knowhow or finances to
afford that kind of solution so CDs or DVDs or FW HD every week should
suffice).

That said, if the drive still functions, then she can plop it in a
FireWire or USB enclosure and try accessing it that way. It may spin
up and allow data to be read off it.

Eric.

On 7/7/05, Lee Dickey <Lee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A friend had the bad luck of having to replace the hard drive on her
> iMac.
>  From her description of what happened, it sounds like it was a seized
> bearing.
> She had a new drive installed and has moved on, but now she is thinking
> she
> would like to recover some of the data that had not been backed up.
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> Any suggestions or recommendations?
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> By the way, at our house, we have very much enjoyed the use of
> fire wire drive for back-up.   I  would not hesitate to recommend
> this method for any one.  We don't do anything fancy, just drag
> and drop to a folder whose name is the date.
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