David Morrison wrote:
> I think I must have run over several black cats last week. I've lost
> things, been hurt by things and the guy who was to install my new
> kitchen is in hospital....
>
> But that's only the small stuff...
>
> Two hard disks died, one being the boot disk from my Mac with 250MB of
> files. I think I have some of it backed up, but I don;t know where the
> backup is. (I was flooded in June and most of my stuff is in storage.)
>
> Anyway, I've tried Diskwarrior and it is not happy. Data Rescue at least
> seems to be able to see things, but cannot get much back.
>
> I'm thinking I might need to send it to a recovery service. I seem to
> recall that there was one in Chatswood some years ago.
>
> Has anyone had any experience with disk recovery? Did it recover what
> you wanted? How much did it cost?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> David
last time I needed to look at disc recovery, it required a clean room
drive dissembly, and rebuild of the platters into a new drive... the
quote was c. $1000, but that was 6 years ago
regards
Chris


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