Re:
> Has anyone listening in had the pleasure of having a hard drive failure and
> having the need of recovering the data from said hard drive?

There are two major parts in doing that kind of recovery:

   - getting the raw bits from the drive;
      ... most data recovery companies can help here;

   - extracting data from the raw bits
      ... very few people can help you here, because they're 
      likely to have only Windows, Mac, or Unix experience.

We've got tools to help us recover files from failed hard drives
(and we've been quite successful using them in the past),
but they require that the drive (or a copy of it) be readable.

I.e., you might be able to repair the drive, or copy the good bits to a new 
drive, and end up with something readable but not mountable as a 
volume ... that's where our tools come in.

Unfortunately, if the drive isn't spinning and/or has serious
hardware issues, the companies that might be able to retrieve the raw
bits from the drive tend to be expensive ... but widely advertised.

If you want to get the data off the drive, and if it isn't a single
disk volume set, it *REALLY* helps if the other volumes of the volumeset
are available for reading during recovery of the failed drive.
(Did I say "*REALLY*"?  I meant ******REALLY****** :)

Stan Sieler
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