The word "crashed" can cover a pretty broad range of scenarios, so I'm not really sure what you are up against. Perhaps it is your boot drive and you can no longer boot Windows? Perhaps it is an external drive and you can no longer "see" it? Perhaps the computer rather than the disk drive has suffered some breakdown? These and other scenarios may be far less catastrophic than they first appear. I have often been able to recover data from disks by installing them in another enclosure or in an empty bay on an otherwise healthy and bootable PC - then, they can often be read directly (plus or minus some bad sectors), or repaired or salvaged with data recovery software such as GetDataBack (http://www.runtime.org/). I'm no expert -- I found their software through Google, and they information and software they provide has been very helpful. If you post further details of your problem, I or others may be able to provide more specific advice, but for now I'd say try pulling the disk and putting it in another PC or external disk enclosure to see if you can read it. Good luck, Chris Jonathon Podolsky wrote: > ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. > ** You too can help the group > ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > I have a PC that crashed but have critical information on the hard drive > which I think can be recovered. Does anyone know of an experienced > technician who might be able to do this on an emergency basis, ie: > tomorrow? > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > -- Chris Duncan, Ph.D. President GISmatters duncan at GISmatters.com http://www.gismatters.com/ 1 Tuckerman Ln Amherst, MA 01002 Tel: 413-549-2052 Fax: 508-637-2557