OT Anyone know of a service to recover data off crashed harddrive

[moon jelly]

Just saw this post after my last post on the hijacker thread. HA HA!

 

[joroscoe]

Perhaps you might try SpinRite?
http://www.grc.com/spinrite.htm

 

[craftytony]

Thanks everyone, you guys rock....I actually stayed up wayy too late stopping by fellow reefers places last night and didn't get a chance to test the drive out yet as a slave....i'll hopefully have an update tommorow.....aiky, i'll definitely give ya a ring...and moongoo.....i do have an extra PC, but it won't connect online...i'll just pick up a harddrive on friday hopefully

by the way...i have a lot of the stuff backed up on my iPOD which crapped out on me about a month ago...could it be easier to recover from that possibly? I'm not exactly sure what went wrong with the iPOD, and I know it's not the battery as I replaced that, and that didn't solve the issue....

 

[oldsaltman]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8779274#post8779274 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DragonFish
Yes, they would love you to think that but I work at a financial institution in the IT dept. and we have to clean our drives before we can dispose of them to government standards. I have a program that writes random bits to the ENTIRE hard drive three times, called Killdisk. When complete it is totally unrecoverable.

I too have some knowledge of computer forensics. As a part of my job I have been to a number of forensic training programs across the country, and conducted a number of investigations involving computer crimes and data destruction and recovery.
What is called totally unrecoverable to the public is not always the same in some forensic settings. There are several "experts" that claim data can be recovered from several layers deep in the platters even if it has been overwritten three times.

 

[DragonFish]

Ya, I read that too but I have yet to see it. I suppose in theory the disk could have some sort of electromagnetic "memory" but I have absolutely no idea how anyone could recover from that. Honestly I don't think it is possible unless you have some serious physics skills.

 

[craftytony]

OK, tried hooking it up as a slave drive last night and NO luck It does sound as if it is spinning though....maybe good news.....

 

[moon jelly]

Hey crybaby. Just stop yer crying and ask Santa for spanking new laptop. You have been a very, very good girl, I mean boy all year. I'm sure if you sit on Santa's lap wearing the pink dress and bat those eyelashes, you will get one.

 

[craftytony]

That's what I was thinking....commando style!!!!

 

[aiko670]

Well, than call me Santa.

 

[moon jelly]

Santa-are you wearing a tutu?

 

[karenL]

Santa has lots of tats

 

[karenL]

and loves scotch, scotch, scotch
Santa smells of scotch

 

[moon jelly]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8807074#post8807074 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by karenL
Santa has lots of tats

But does he have one of a tiny clownfish swimming around his naval?

 

[karenL]

I could always photo shop 1 if he doesn't

 

[craftytony]

Just don't sit on my hard drive...it's FUBAR

 

[moon jelly]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8807026#post8807026 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by aiko670
Well, than call me Santa.

Any elves working for you Santa?

 

[moon jelly]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8807127#post8807127 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by craftytony
Just don't sit on my hard drive...it's FUBAR

Well, I don't think Santa wants to sit on your software.

 

[karenL]

elves with ink?

 

[moon jelly]

So Knucklehead-What did you end up buying for me for Christmas?

 

[karenL]

Knucklehead, do you have ink?
piercings?