[Gllug] [OT] Data Recovery companies

[Ashley Evans]

Rich Walker wrote:

>Ashley Evans <hoshy at hoshy.co.uk> writes:
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>>Hi,
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>>Google returns a myriad of companies.  Anybody with positive first hand experience ?
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>Yes; I've had a hard-drive recovered by a firm in West London. Hang
>on:
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>http://www.datarecoverydirect.co.uk/
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>I was upgrading Debian on my laptop, and forgot that /usr was mounted
>-ro. I ended up with a non-usable machine. I thought "I'll plug the
>hard drive in to another box" and stuck the 2.5->3.5 adapter in the
>wrong way round. Smoke.
>
>They completely recovered it onto a newer, larger drive.
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>It wasn't very cheap, but it was a *lot* cheaper than some other
>companies that do the same job.
>
>cheers, Rich.
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Thanks Rich, I'll give them a shout.
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