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From: englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: URGENT HELP! UNRECOVERABLE HARD DISK
Message-ID: <3768@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 26 Sep 88 22:30:54 GMT
References: <26222@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: englandr@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Englander)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <26222@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> hullp@cogsci.berkeley.edu (             ) writes:
>After entering "KEYBOARD.SYS" in my CONFIG.SYS file, my hard drive 
>has been completely inaccessible.  I can now only boot up from a 
>floppy and both DOS commands, Norton Utilities, and PCTOOLS tell me
>I have no hard drive on my system and consequently don't allow me
>access to it.  
>I assume the FAT's are destroyed.  I have vital (unbacked-up) data
>on the disk.  How can I recover it?

I have a MiniScribe 8438 that just went bad (General Read Error) under
warranty.  The supplier replaced it, but i lost a month of data.  So i
called MiniScribe, and they referred me to OnTrack Data Recovery Inc. in
Eden Prairie Minn., 800/752-1333 (Susan).  I called them and this is the
deal:  You sign a contract and pay them $200 up front for a diagnosis.
Then they call you with an estimate of what it will cost to recover the
data.  She told me that they have very high success rates, and if the
amount of data is small, they'll include it in the $200.  Otherwise you
pay according to how much there is to recover.  I'll post here again
after i've had some experience with them.

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                                               - Scott