Lucky for you Kroll Ontrack is located in Eden Prairie and they are data recovery specialists. Not lucky for you because they are not cheap. Last time I heard they charge based on the amount of data they recover. In the event of a hardware failure, one of their strategies is to track down the same drive model and swap the mechanical components. There web address is: http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com. If you do use them, I'd be curious how they are? Expensive? Accurately? Timely? -Chris Subramanya Sastry wrote: > Hi folks, > > I just had the misfortune of having my hard drive crash on me ... it > seems like a mechanical failure ... horrible clicking noises ... > > There is some data on there that I haven't backed up recently, plus, I > had used this drive as a backup for data on some other hard drive ... > while this is not catastrophic data loss, I was wondering if folks had > any suggestions for recovering data in the face of mechanical failure > ... or what it might cost if I paid some service for data recovery in > the twin cities. > > It is a ext3 file system .. though not sure that matters ... > > Thanks, > Subbu. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20071002/ec098add/attachment-0001.htm