After serious contemplation, on or about Tuesday 06 September 2005 5:00 pm
wrote:

On 6 Sep 2005 12:52:13 -0700, "Halcitron" wrote:

There are data recovery firms, who can disassemble a harddrive and
using lasers, they can read the data strings on the platters, then they
can reassemble the data, but that is last resort and costly.

Sadly, this will not work for striped drives if there's
been a bad head crash, AFAIK.

Ontrac Software which makes Disk Manager has a data recovery service. One
of their advertisements use to show a screwdriver driven right through the
platters. They claimed to be able to retrieve data from everything except
where the holes were.

Paul Mace's company use to do the same thing. But that man was a genius
when it came to hard drives.

--
Later,
Darrell Stec

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