On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 10:13, Josh Trutwin wrote: > Anyone know of a good hard drive repair specialist? I have a Gateway > laptop (which btw, I highly recommend EVERYONE stay away from gateway > laptops) that overheats often. Last night the HD failed on it. It's > making loud clicking sounds (click of death?) and I'm just curious if > it's even worth attempting to recover and if so, does anyone know of a > good place to get it done? All is thankfully not lost, I run nightly > backups through rsync, but some time ago my rsync server had a full > partition so my last good backup is over 2 weeks old. first decide how much your lost data is worth to you. I'd plan on using your backup unless you are willing to pay though the nose to repair physical problems with a drive. OnTrack in Eden Prairie is world renowned for fixing physically damaged disks but even if you've got 8 hours per day for the past two weeks of stuff that is only on your disk it would be cheaper for you to redo what you have lost.(read OnTrack is Very Expensive) If your data is worth less than $2000 forget about OnTrack. There are probably other less expencive places. There is a lot you can do yourself. first I would try plugging the drive into a atx box, fire up the box booting off of a good drive, mounting the bad drive manually read only, then try to copy what you can off of it. To mount it in a atx box you will need an 2.5" IDE converter. I have one you can borrow, they are $10 at microcenter. Let me know if you have problems, I've done this a few times. -- Tom Penney <blots at visi.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list