> Anyone know of a good hard drive repair specialist? Everyone says Ontrack. Everyone says they're expensive. Both are correct, Ontrack is by far the best shop out there, they know it, and charge accordingly. If you're serious about it, $100 will give you an estimate on recovery costs (non refundable). > I have a Gateway laptop (which btw, I highly recommend EVERYONE stay away > from gateway laptops) Which model? Every manufacturer has a bad line of laptops, but the new 450 series seem to be quite good (except that they won't boot off USB.. GRRRRRR) > that overheats often. That's definitely a Gateway :-) > Last night the HD failed on it. It's making loud clicking sounds She's dead, Jim. Throw it in a ziplock bag and put it in the freezer (or nature's freezer, it's a cold one today) for a couple hours and try to get the data off while it's still cold. Also try this with the IDE converter mentioned elsewhere in this thread. > I run nightly backups through rsync I must strip you of geek membership card. I wasn't aware that geeks actually practice what they preach. > but some time ago my rsync server had a full partition so > my last good backup is over 2 weeks old. Diverging topics, how and what sort of backup mechanism are you using on the rsync server? I'm looking to do something similar, as I imagine other TCLUG'ers are as well. -Brian _______________________________________________ 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