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Data recovery when your computer's drive is lifeless

Posted February 12, 2008 8:35 AM

From CNET News.com:

Data recovery when your computer's drive is lifeless. You know that sinking feeling. You press powerÂ…and nothing. Not to fear. For some serious cash, there's a handful of data recovery services out there that can help bring your hard drive back to life. CNET News.com's Kara Tsuboi takes us through the process of recovery and stresses the importance of backing up your files.

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02/13/2008 6:09 PM

Excellent!

Pencil me in for the usual Quazimodo / backup jokes

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02/14/2008 12:46 AM

Interesting, but of course the video is useless for us here in New Zealand.

Never mind, I have a very good stable of useful recovery utilities.

Never needed them for myself, but have been handy for re3covering the data of others.

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02/14/2008 2:40 AM

the video is useless for us here in New Zealand.

Surely you could down load a media player? Or are Kiwi eyes not capable of interpreting rapidy changing 2D images ???

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02/14/2008 3:50 AM

Hello Del the cat

I actually have around a dozen different players here.

It's not a player problem, it's a bandwidth problem, the videos are large files, and the connection to the Internet is so slow.

ADSL I am, but in general it's as fast as it was on dial-up, back in 1993.

Reason was that Telecom, NZ's largest ISP, and a part owner of the PACRIM undersea cable, wholesales Internet connection capacity to all other ISP's.

Telecom did not know about ADSL technology, until I told them.

Then they went on an advertising binge, connected around 200,000 customers to ADSL, and my fast connection fell away to dial-up speeds at many times of the day.

Add to that micro-outages, sometimes lasting 2 or more minutes, and you can see why the frustration here.

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02/14/2008 8:33 AM

Blimey that must get real frustra
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