Re: [tlug] Hard drive failure

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "aitux" == aitux  <aitux@example.com> writes:

    aitux> Hello, I would like to ask if someone knows a place in
    aitux> Tokyo maybe in akihabara, where I can take my hard drive
    aitux> and attempt to recover the data;

If the disk is genuinely fried, this can be very expensive (units of
100,000 yen).  If the data is important enough that you'd be willing
to go that high (if necessary), then don't mess with it, call the
pros.  I asked the same question about two, three years ago, there
was somebody then on the list whose company did this kind of work.  I
forget details, but do check it out.

If you are very lucky, on the other hand, you can plug the disk back
in as a non-boot drive and try to read it.  It's possible that you
just have a scratch on the boot sector or the like, and all of the
data you didn't install from the CD is still safe!  You can often use
software like dd(1) to get your hands on many of the undamaged
sectors, even if the file system is trashed.  Etc.

Good luck.

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