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Originally Posted by Oh Haha
I asked but I think it got lost in the hospital story. Can you retrieve stuff off a corrupted hard drive?
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Short answer yes. But is depends on what went wrong with the drive.
If it is just an error on the boot sectors you can use a running computer to read that dive and see the data easily. If the drive crashed totally, you will need to send it to a drive recovery specialist. Those guys are crazy expensive. They seem to think it is worth hundreds of dollars per hour to recover data. You might ask Sid if he still knows any of those guys. Back in the early days when he was in college he took a course in forensic data recovery.
On TV they make it looks easy, they just pound on the keyboard on just one row of keys, never using the space bar or backspace ever and don't touch the mouse and they can have the computer do anything even a locked and password encrypted computer that was in a foreign country and language.