RE: OT (surprise, surprise) Getting data off dead disk

["Mick Furlong" <dorsai@xxxxxxx>]

Graham

Unless you are talking thousands of pages then it will be cheaper to pay
someone to retype them than to use a data recovery firm, sorry not to be of
more help :(

Mick

Graham Howe <graham@xxxxxxx> said:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mick Furlong [mailto:dorsai@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 31 August 2001 17:08
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx; Graham Howe
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] OT (surprise, surprise) Getting data
> > off dead disk
> >
> >
> > Graham
> >
> > a dodgy slave disc shouldn't render the machine unbootable
> > should it? Are you
> > sure there isn't another problem? I thought I had a kaput
> > SCSI disc once
> > until I notice a bent pin ;)
> >
> Well I must admit I was surprised, but as soon as I put the disk in
another
> machine, then the other machine fails to identify any disks at boot
up. when
> the faulty disk is removed everything is fine again.
>
> > As to data recovery firms I haven't used one for years but I
> > can tell you
> > that they used to be damn expensive. Probably cheaper to
> > rewrite the HTML.
> >
> The HTML pages in question are multiple pages of text entered by hand
as
> they were not available in electronic format, I really don't want to
redo
> them unless absolutely necessary.
>
> > If you think the problem is the drive electronics then you
> > could try swapping
> > the platter enclosure with an identical disc. I know this
> > isn't possible on a
> > lot of modern discs but it can be done on some older ones.
> >
>
> Actually it is quite a modern disk so this is probably not an option,
> besides I don't have an identical disk.
>
> > One final straw to clutch at....if you or someone else have
> > accessed the html
> > pages from another machine then they might be in that
> > machines browser cache.
> > A long shot but worth trying.
> >
> Yeah, I though of that and have searched the cache of every machine at
home,
> no luck I'm afraid.
>
> Regards
>
> Graham
>
>
>
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