[OT] Disc rescue...

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A while ago someone on here had a drive get corrupted and recovered
the data
themselves - if you're out there can you tell me tool(s) you used (or were
recommended to try) to recover the data?

Just had my sister-in-law call and her PC's gone titsup ... haven't seen it
yet but some "PC bloke" has swapped out the hard disc for a new
one and
reinstalled the OS etc. and has told her that the drive is corrupt but
(intelligently IMO) instead of just nuking the drive and reinstalling put
in
a new one so that she could try to get the data back off the old one.
Unfortunately the hard disc holds all her files for her little business
that
she's just started up and no, it wasn't backed up!

I haven't seen the drive yet but my understanding is that it still spins up
fine, it's just that it won't get through booting so it might not be too
bad. Should have the drive with me sometime this weekend I expect.

(And yes, I will be sorting her out with Norton Ghost and an external
drive.)

Cheers

Phil