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* Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to mount a bad disk
  @ 2007-05-28 11:57 99%   ` Alan McKinnon
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From: Alan McKinnon @ 2007-05-28 11:57 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Sunday 27 May 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 09:26 -0400, sean wrote:
> > I have a Windows XP driver here that belongs to a friend that just
> > crashed.
> >
> > I am trying to figure out if there is some way I can force the
> > drive to
> > mount on my system so that I can get some data off it for her.
> >
> > Not having much luck, would anyone have any tips as to how I might
> > be able to make this happen?
>
> If the drive experienced a head crash, then there is pretty much
> nothing you can do.


Wrong.

If the drive suffered a head crash, you would be amazed what data 
recovery experts can do.

But true enough, there might be very little that sean personally and by 
himself can do :-)

alan

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