[Hidden-tech] Retrieve data on external hard drive

[Al Williams]

This seems to be a good lesson in why any information with a chance of
retention should be stored on RAID1+ drives as well as a backup 2nd RAID1+
or online.


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:28 AM, <dstevens at tryandfindit.com> wrote:

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> Good Morning George,
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> I found this when searching the web:
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> http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-files/how-can-i-recover-deleted-files-with-shift-del/13b1eaad-d41a-4e77-91c5-f0bc9590de7d
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> I am going to try the free one....
> can let you know how it goes...
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> don
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> Subject: [Hidden-tech] Retrieve data on external hard drive
> From: George Forman <GEForman at aol.com>
> Date: Thu, October 24, 2013 5:56 am
> To: hidden-discuss <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>
> Cc: Leslie Gleim <lgleim at midpac.edu>, Edna Hussey <ednah at midpac.edu>
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> Dear Hidden Tech Community,
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> A colleague of mine who works in Honolulu cannot open a back up drive that
> contains 3 years of work.  She is absolutely undone by this lost.  The
> drive contain 3,000 video clips of a demonstration preschool that presents
> an innovative approach to early childhood education.  The drive will boot
> then crash.  The standard attempts to repair the directory have not worked.
>  She was told by a company in Honolulu that it would cost $700 to retrieve
> the data.  Doesn't that sound like way too much money?  Does anyone know of
> a reliable service that can retrieve the data for less?  She has a Western
> Digital, 2 terabyte drive that is about 75% full.  I would then call your
> recommended service to learn what is involved in retrieving data (dust free
> room, manual retrieval versus batching it, etc.) and communicate this
> information back to my colleague.
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> Thanks,
> George Forman, President
> Videatives, Inc.
> Amherst, Massachusetts
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