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From: jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Smacked Mac Diskette needs Open Hea
Message-ID: <590@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 13 Dec 90 21:34:39 GMT
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Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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In article <1236000005@ENS.Prime.COM> J.COOK@ENS.Prime.COM writes:
>
>Re: Recovering data from dead floppies:
>
>If you are really desparate (and money is no object?) Polaroid offers a data
>recovery service.  Call them for details - I've never used it, just heard about
>it.  I believe they will attempt recovery regardless of whether the problem is
>data corruption or that you spilled your chocolate shake on it.

  On the same line, my father owns an IBM PC AT clone that has a hard drive
that is notorious for crashing when it will do the most damage.  (Like the
time he needed documents for an upcoming court case and the drive took a
dive!)  He has used a data recovery service (I don't know which one - there
are quite a few these days) with great success.  They were able to resurect
nearly all the data with a few days.  Of course, as it was stated above, these
services are not cheap!  But hey, if you need it back and need it badly, use
'em!
  Or maybe the moral is don't use a PC clone!  :) :)

|     John Taggart Gorman Jr.    | "I'm a no rust build up man myself."
|                                |          -Christian Slater
| jtgorman@caslon.cs.arizona.edu |             in 'Heathers'