Sorry for the off-topic post, but it seems that the primary hard drive
in our home file server has failed (argh!!!). Just wondering if anyone
has any suggestions for trying to get the data off it, preferably
something I can try myself. It's a linux drive, so I tried booting with
a Knoppix CD, and that refused to talk to the drive. The motherboard
BIOS says "Primary master hard disk failed" upon bootup, which doesn't
fill me with hope. The only other thing I can think to try is to pull
it out of that system and try it in another system to see if, by some
miracle, the other system might be able to talk to it.
Yes, we do have a backup, but it's from June 11. I'd like to get the
last 5.5 weeks of stuff back if possible.
If there's nothing I can do myself, does anyone know how much money
professional data recovery costs?
DML content: I can bring the drive to the BBQ in case anyone has any
ideas on what to do with it, or has contacts in the data recovery industry.
Thanks!
Jason
(even my sig file was on the server, so I'm sigless)
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