Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!news 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 Lines: 25 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. ------------------- 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. | ------------------- W. Simon Tortike, | tel : 403/492-3338 Dept of Mining, Metallurgical | fax : 403/492-7219 and Petroleum Engineering, | CDNnet : simon@cs.UAlberta.CA