I am an idiot... pls help...
so i was trying to resurrect a *free* B&W "...dead, I am not dead yet" G3 and ended up frying the main scsi drive of my old computer ie smoke came puffing out of a now visibly burned capacitor (or something resembling a capacitor). I am in philly, and I want my data/software back...
does anybody recommend or know of a good data recovery place local to philly or even nationally?
bruce
ps apparently yellow dog linux is capable of resurrecting dead g3s, though the hybrid machine it created cant see new drives or even start up from os 9)
pps if i can get the data back should i continue to play with the b&w?
does anybody recommend or know of a good data recovery place local to philly or even nationally?
bruce
ps apparently yellow dog linux is capable of resurrecting dead g3s, though the hybrid machine it created cant see new drives or even start up from os 9)
pps if i can get the data back should i continue to play with the b&w?
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-alcimedes
if your'e still interested, one of the best places in the nation is here in MN, i'll give you their info.
IIRC it's a few hundred just to look at the drive.
so if spending 2 grand would allow me to recover my last 9 years of work, so be it...
I am not really worried about the cost, the work was really important to be... if anything i am just really sad that i was stupid enough to let this happen...
i guess i should dish out the money now to get a new hard drive...
let my savings account bleed and let the peon tech companies rejoice in the effluent....
oh dear.
bruce
Originally posted by billybobsky
the hard drive contained all of my work from college (thesis included), applications for md/phd programs and high school...
so if spending 2 grand would allow me to recover my last 9 years of work, so be it...
I am not really worried about the cost, the work was really important to be... if anything i am just really sad that i was stupid enough to let this happen...
i guess i should dish out the money now to get a new hard drive...
let my savings account bleed and let the peon tech companies rejoice in the effluent....
oh dear.
bruce
Bruce, I'm terribly sorry about this, and I hate to kick you when you're down - but why on earth didn't you have all these files backed up on CDs, floppies, emailed to a hotmail account accessible from any online computer in the world, etc?
i wasnt connected to the net at the time...
but still....
banging head against wall...
earth shakes on other side....
bruce
otherwise try these guys. they're excellent.
http://www.ontrack.com/