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Article #8881Re: Request for info on Hard Disk Repair places
From: Reid Simpson
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1990 15:18
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1990 15:18
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If you don't care about the data, you ought to return it to the manufacturer (especially under warrantee!) But if you need the data, you have to go to a recovery shop. These facilities essentially repair your drive to a point at which they can spin it up and read the data off to some floppies. They then return the drive and the recovered data to you. This procedure voids all manufacturer's warrantees, so you have to buy a new drive (or pay for real repairs, since the recovery shop doesn't fully recondition the drive). Depends on which is worth more to you, data or drive. Reid. simpson@Xylogics.COM (PS. I intentionally didn't mention any recovery shops since I haven't actually used their services. Prices were high enough that I couldn't afford to recover my data for my home PC, so I just swapped my hard drive. Email me if you want an address, or call the drive manufacturer and ask for a recommended data recovery shop.)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!bu.edu!bu-cs!xylogics!simpson From: simpson@Xylogics.COM (Reid Simpson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Request for info on Hard Disk Repair places Message-ID: <8281@xenna.Xylogics.COM> Date: 18 Jan 90 15:18:19 GMT References: <19095@netnews.upenn.edu> <3464@rti.UUCP> Sender: news@Xylogics.COM Reply-To: simpson@Xylogics.COM (Reid Simpson) Distribution: usa Organization: Xylogics, Inc., Burlington MA Lines: 19