[NCLUG] Hard drive recovery

[Chad Perrin]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 05:02:41PM -0600, Michael Coffman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Any suggestions on where to take or send a laptop hard drive to try and 
> get data recovered from it?   I don't know the actual state of the drive 
> as it isn't mine.   I have zero experience with laptops or trying to get
> data from one that is 'broken'.   The person has taken it to officemax and 
> bestbuy and they both said the drive could not be read.   Any 
> recommendations for a local hardware guru that could maybe extract data
> from the disks would be greatly appreciated.

What's the problem?  Did the laptop just "stop working" somehow?
Depending on what happened, it may be that all you need to do is hook up
the drive to another system to read data from it, and someone here might
be able to help you with that (myself included).

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