I've never lost data from a hard drive. I've lost hard
drives, but I was always able to pull the data off of
them using over the counter applications (well, I did
have trouble with a bunch of machines, but those were
Macs. The Drives suffered from "Stiction"
http://www.edprint.demon.co.uk/se/stiction.html
I also recently lost a 45gb drive to platter-chatter,
and one 10gb partition was completly lost.
But using OnTrack's Easy Recovery Professional
Edition, I was able to fully recover the entire
partition. And using Norton's GHOST, I then GHOSTed
the rest of the drive onto a new replacement drive.
If your computer guys can't recover your drive, it is
more likely a problem with their lack of motivation or
their lack of knowledge as opposed to there not being
a way to do it.
And taking the automobile analogy to it's logical
point, if you purchase a Cadilac with the Northstar
system, they recommend that your first scheduled
maintenance not occur before 100,000 miles. They say
that if you have unscheduled maintenance before that
time that it will void your warrantee!
<snip>
> > And the best of it all is that these so called
> computer professionals
> > don't even know how to explain the various
> incidents. All they have to
> > offer is either "Restart" or in more persistent
> cases "Reinstall". Well,
> > if you happen to have a problem with a car and
> bring it to the
> > professionals, they will be able to tell you
> exactly what went wrong,
> > because they are ***true*** engineers, unlike most
> of those IT folks who
> > call themselves engineers but they are just
> certified ignorants or
> > wannabees.
>
> Being forced to use NT at work, and having lost my
> hard disk twice last
> year, with Windows specialists taking the whole
> machine in for about 4 days
> each time on average, I tend to agree with the
> above. Specially since those
> specialist were never able to salvage anything from
> the hard disks, and the
> only explanation they gave me for that error was
> that Windows didn't close
> properly!
>
> -Laurent.
> --
>
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> Laurent Daudelin
> <http://home.cox.rr.com/nemesys>
> Logiciels Nemesys Software
> mailto:nemesys_at_cox.rr.com
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