[nylug-talk] Dead hard drive

[Joseph M. Gaffney]

On Wednesday 12 July 2006 21:45, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 07:18:07PM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > But I'd like to get a 2nd opinion before I admit I couldn't do
> > something with Linux that he could do with Windows.  Rubs me the wrong
> > way.
>
> What rubs me the wrong way is someone trying to get a highly specialized
> computer service that can run thousands of dollars per recovery done
> for free by playing on people's OS insecurities.

What rubs me the wrong way is when people just don't get it.  Purchasing a 
program for windows vs. using open source tools, NOT sending out a drive with 
some pics on it to a data recovery service costing $1500 for a review of the 
drive within 24hrs, who will use a similar set of tools FIRST.

I just did this myself the other day for my roommate.  Of course, his problem 
was NTFS, and Windows no longer booted.  Slax, my usb adapted 30GB notebook 
drive, and a few moments explaining what I was doing later, and his pics were 
recovered.  Do you think I should have sent out the drive for that?

Relax yourself.

-Joseph M. Gaffney
aka CuCullin