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From: simon@alberta.uucp (Simon Tortike)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: HD data recovery
Message-ID: <1989Oct1.002217.19478@alberta.uucp>
Date: 1 Oct 89 00:22:17 GMT
References: <549@mindlink.UUCP>
Reply-To: simon@alberta.UUCP (Simon Tortike)
Organization: Petroleum Engg, U of Alberta
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In article <549@mindlink.UUCP> a379@mindlink.UUCP (Gordon Mulcaster) writes:
>> cycy writes:
>> 
>> I'm afraid that, as humiliating as this public confession is, I must admit
>> that I was not really backing up my harddisk, and the disk died on me (I was
>> going to get the backup programme just that week!).
>
>I lost mine DURING a backup, then in my recovery attempts I lost all the
>information... SUM sucks.
>
I guess everyone has his own story.  I found my 40 Mbyte hard-disk trashed
last night, with the Finder offering to re-initialise it after booting from
a floppy.  This morning I got the SUM Disk Clinic disk and recovered the
entire drive in a matter of minutes.  The hard disk had had the Guardian
installed.  That saved half a day, so SUM is OK by me.
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W. Simon Tortike,                         | tel    : 403/492-3338
Dept of Mining, Metallurgical             | fax    : 403/492-7219
      and Petroleum Engineering,          | CDNnet : simon@cs.UAlberta.CA
University of Alberta,                    | uucp   : simon@alberta.uucp
Edmonton, AB, CANADA T6G 2G6.             | 
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W. Simon Tortike,                         | tel    : 403/492-3338
Dept of Mining, Metallurgical             | fax    : 403/492-7219
      and Petroleum Engineering,          | CDNnet : simon@cs.UAlberta.CA