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From: russ@prism.gatech.EDU (Russell Shackelford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: dead HD post-mortem....
Keywords: what is best to do?
Message-ID: <5782@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 8 Feb 90 01:02:25 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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just had a 30mb Seagate die after about 5 years..... what to do?

2 questions:

1. it's been a couple months since backup, so there is some-but-not-
horrible data loss.  Does anybody know what it costs to have somebody
retrieve data from dead disks?  I know firms do this...

2.  Is it smart or dumb to get the thing "rebuilt" for $75-80 vs
getting a new $350 drive?

all help will be appreciated.  e-mail is easier to get, but I'll read
thru ALL of comp.sys.ibm.pc just in case it's not convenient for
you to e-mail.

thanks,

-- 
Russell Shackelford
School of Information and Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332
russ@prism.gatech.edu         (404) 834-4759