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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
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Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP with Dead Maxtor!
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Date: 6 Jun 90 11:10:46 GMT
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In <30563@cup.portal.com>, Doug_B_Erdely@cup.portal.com writes:
>It's dead Jim! :)
>
> 
>Hello!
>  Our users group BBS has died due to a power supply/hard drive failure.
>To be more specific our Maxtor 280 Meg HD is toast. Its not bad enough that
>our group (which is not exactly rich) has lost this drive that we are still
>paying for, but all the data on it! Does anyone know of any way we can get
>the data off of this drive? I have contacted Maxtor (They want a total of
>$775 to 'fix' the drive, which I have no idea when we will be able to get
>fixed) and was told that we would lose all data, they wont just replace
>the circuit card on the drive and send it back. We have alot of PD
>software on the drive that we would rather not loose, ANY ideas...
>or donations? :)

Check out 'jb technologies'. They advertise in Computer Shopper. Give them a
call and tel them about it. They should be able to tell you their chances of
recovering the data, and will fix the drive itself quite reasonably. I don't
know what they would charge for data recovery.

-larry

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