Ontrack's software is pretty good, but I had a user whos laptop was formatted and then reinstalled with XP who didn't keep his files on the server as he was supposed to. The user noticed immeadiately. (hey where did my unsupported and non-backed up Goldmine CRM go?) My company spent 1500 dollars and Ontrack was unable to recover anything that Ontrack's "Easy Recovery Pro" couldn't. Then again this wasn't a hardware failure so that may be very different. Best of luck, Chris On 10/2/07, Subramanya Sastry <sss.lists at gmail.com> 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 > > -- "The gun... insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." Ronald Reagan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20071002/06ed8082/attachment.htm