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A client has handed me a laptop that looks as if it was attacked with a cricket bat, A/C power cable end has the motherboard socket attached, broken from the M/B... battery dead, screen detached and cracked to inoperability. Removed the drive and put into a BlackX external USB unit. Micro$oft O/S machine tells me the drive is "corrupted" and no info is readable. Boot sector and drive ROM are useless. Winblows can't see beyond the drive's firmware.
The data on the drive has valuable info, client didn't back it up!
I've now got it in the BlackX connected to a Linux machine, all the *.doc, *.jpg, *.gif, etc. are being ferreted to a "Passport" external 2TB drive.
BACK UP YOUR IMPORTANT DATA!!!
14 hours to pull the files off the damaged drive onto the Passport, but it'll be like a plate of spaghetti finding the "important" data. Not my issue.
Other outfits charge from hundreds to thousands to do this, but the client will be offered three options: take the drive to another Data Recovery company and pay their fee; pay me the $90 to keep the Passport with the data; or copy the spaghetti to another hard drive and hand back the external device and $45... wonder which they'll choose. :smirk:
AGAIN: BACK UP YOUR IMPORTANT DATA!!!
*sheesh*
If I were a thief, I'd be someplace on a sailboat in the Caribbean by now! :wink:
The data on the drive has valuable info, client didn't back it up!
I've now got it in the BlackX connected to a Linux machine, all the *.doc, *.jpg, *.gif, etc. are being ferreted to a "Passport" external 2TB drive.
BACK UP YOUR IMPORTANT DATA!!!
14 hours to pull the files off the damaged drive onto the Passport, but it'll be like a plate of spaghetti finding the "important" data. Not my issue.
Other outfits charge from hundreds to thousands to do this, but the client will be offered three options: take the drive to another Data Recovery company and pay their fee; pay me the $90 to keep the Passport with the data; or copy the spaghetti to another hard drive and hand back the external device and $45... wonder which they'll choose. :smirk:
AGAIN: BACK UP YOUR IMPORTANT DATA!!!
*sheesh*
If I were a thief, I'd be someplace on a sailboat in the Caribbean by now! :wink: