Comments on: Quick Tip: Hard Drive Rescue http://www.caffination.com/tech/hard-drive-rescue-957/ Caffeine Culture and Technology News Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:53:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris http://www.caffination.com/tech/hard-drive-rescue-957/#comment-19053 Chris Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:19:41 +0000 http://www.caffination.com/?p=957#comment-19053 We have a similar adapter in my office. Seems a little flaky with SATA though. May have to check out the one you linked to. Our program of choice for windows HDs is Zero Assumption Recovery (ZAR) http://www.z-a-recovery.com/ It takes forever to analyze drives (60 hours is our current record, 12 hr avg) but has gotten data back from heavily corrupted drives. We have a relationship with DriveSavers in California. They offer a partnership program that gets academic institutions a % off on recovery jobs (no discount on attempt fees) The program is free to join so even if we don't need it we don't lose anything. DriveSavers has a 80% success rate for things we have sent them (4 out of 5, and that 1 failure was a very special case) I agree with darkuncle. backups are the cheapest solution. on my Windows boxes I run a scheduled task that robocopys (robocopy: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145.aspx) my important folders to a separate hard drive every 24 hours. On my mac i rely on TimeMachine (and that has saved my butt twice in the last 18 months) We have a similar adapter in my office. Seems a little flaky with SATA though. May have to check out the one you linked to.

Our program of choice for windows HDs is Zero Assumption Recovery (ZAR) http://www.z-a-recovery.com/
It takes forever to analyze drives (60 hours is our current record, 12 hr avg) but has gotten data back from heavily corrupted drives.

We have a relationship with DriveSavers in California. They offer a partnership program that gets academic institutions a % off on recovery jobs (no discount on attempt fees) The program is free to join so even if we don’t need it we don’t lose anything.
DriveSavers has a 80% success rate for things we have sent them (4 out of 5, and that 1 failure was a very special case)

I agree with darkuncle. backups are the cheapest solution. on my Windows boxes I run a scheduled task that robocopys (robocopy: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145.aspx) my important folders to a separate hard drive every 24 hours.
On my mac i rely on TimeMachine (and that has saved my butt twice in the last 18 months)

]]> By: pzul http://www.caffination.com/tech/hard-drive-rescue-957/#comment-19052 pzul Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:31:28 +0000 http://www.caffination.com/?p=957#comment-19052 You're right about that! But try as i might its hard to get anyone to plan ahead. Backup needs to be simple, time machine is a good start but it does nothing for the PC world. When the inevitable happens its nice to be prepared. You’re right about that! But try as i might its hard to get anyone to plan ahead. Backup needs to be simple, time machine is a good start but it does nothing for the PC world. When the inevitable happens its nice to be prepared.

]]> By: darkuncle http://www.caffination.com/tech/hard-drive-rescue-957/#comment-19051 darkuncle Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:28:02 +0000 http://www.caffination.com/?p=957#comment-19051 goes without saying that it's always cheaper, easier and less stressful to have good backups beforehand - then, when the inevitable happens, it's really no more hassle than the cost of a replacement and the time to restore. goes without saying that it’s always cheaper, easier and less stressful to have good backups beforehand – then, when the inevitable happens, it’s really no more hassle than the cost of a replacement and the time to restore.

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