Follow-up to post on dead hard drive in wife's PB: DriveSavers

[ArtP]

Does the drive still mount?

I had some recent success with this on a file I deleted by accident:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/16097

FileSalvage is an extremely powerful data recovery tools designed to restore files that have been accidentally deleted, have become unreadable due to media faults, or were stored on a drive before it was re-initialized or formatted. It is device and file system independent, allowing the users to recover files from a normal Mac OS hard drive, USB key, Linux disk, Windows drive, FLASH card, scratched CD, and almost any other media or file system that can be recognized in Mac OS X.

$80 is way cheaper than what Drivesavers will charge.

[vision63]

[quote davester][quote MacMagus]Money well-spent in this case.
Actually, it's all money stupidly spent. Every single person perusing his thread should have his/her data and his/her clients' data backed up and not be in need of the service. I'm sure there is a killing to be made in data backup services, because ever place of work I've been, with the exception of work I do at at a national laboratory with a huge IT staff, has an imbecilic or nonexistent backup strategy.
Jeee Zuss! I'm gonna back up day after... TOMORROW!

Unless it's nice and sunny then I have to wait til the fog rolls in. THEN I'll back up. Unless...

[endymion]

If you do go with drivesavers, you can use the reseller code DS15899.

It should net you a free evaluation and 10% of the recovery cost.
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[MacMagus]

> > Money well-spent in this case.
>
> Actually, it's all money stupidly spent. Every single person perusing his
> thread should have his/her data and his/her clients' data backed up and
> not be in need of the service.

1. Backups fail, too.

2. I've been trying to get them to adopt a backup scheme for two years now and even after taking this hit they won't do it. Some business operators are cheap beyond comprehension.

3. Given their options after the drive failure they were overjoyed to find that it only cost them a few thousand dollars and a couple of days because...

4. When tragedy inevitably strikes someone's data -- as it will even if we all back up regularly -- it's nice to have companies like DriveSavers out there.

[Robert M]

Davester,

In a perfect world, everyone will have backups and backups of their backups. And, they'll backup regularly. Unfortunately, that's not the case. And, assuming someone _does_ backup regularly, sometimes a failure will take place at a time when even having the latest backup won't cut it. Or, the corruption was gradual and is in the backups. So, reverting to the backup restores the data along with the corruption that eventually caused the failure. So, to say using DriveSavers or an equivalent is money stupidly spent is in my opinion, a statement that isn't well thought out at all.

Robert

[Jp!]

drobo.com

[davester]

I was just trying to do a good elmo3 imitation.