[Leica] One thing after another

[daniel at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings)]

Well, I didn't want to go through all the details, but Bill started
down that path and the service people didn't think the chances were
good. Not sure what the crash was like, but some specialist programs
have been run against it.

If the head crashes against the platter, and that might be the case,
odds get worse.

Daniel

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 5:24 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> 
wrote:
> The drive may be dead; though the data is still on the platter.
> That's what the recovery people excel at - reading that platter.
>
> Regards,
> George
> (from iPad)
>
> On Jan 12, 2011, at 4:14, Daniel Ridings <daniel at dlridings.se> wrote:
>
>> This is called off. Bill is pretty sure that the disk is really,
>> really a dead duck. It would still cost a fortune to have one of these
>> data recovery companies analyze it, only to conclude that it is dead,
>> dead, dead.
>
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