[ale] Hard Drive data recovery services?

[Brian Mathis]

If you wanted to try DIY, take a look at ddrescue.

There's also Spinrite, which costs money but so far it has worked really
well for me.  Some people don't like it because it writes back to the "bad"
drive and could make things worse, but I think that will mainly be an issue
if there is physical damage to the drive.

I would try to make an image using ddrescue, then you could try spinrite
and if it makes things worse, then you've already got the backup image.



❧ Brian Mathis


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> ISTR that the topic of data recovery has come up before on the list.  Does
> anyone have recommendations for good places to get data recovered off a
> laptop drive?  The wife's laptop appears to have crapped out and she did
> not have the latest set of photos backed up
>
> TIA,
>
> Pete Hardie
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