[Leica] probably your worse case nightmare! :-(

[allen.graves at charter.net (Allen Graves)]

I used there guys about 6 years ago to recover a drive. A little expensive 
but wrth it. They have been in business a ong time (at least in computer 
years).

http://www.drivesavers.com/

Also, don't mess around too much with the disk until you get it to someone 
who knows how to recover data, so that you won't inadvertently corrupt 
something easily recoverable.

After you get the data back, RAID is a good idea. A friend of mine just got 
an external 2-disk drive (hot-swappable) from LaCie that was pretty much 
plug and play. No computer expertise required. I'm sure there are many 
others out there as well.

Good luck

Allen



---- Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote: 
> Howdy folks,
> I know some of you have experienced the total utter anguish of loss when a 
> hard drive crashes and burns taking everyone with it!
> 
> My main PHOTO  hard-drive crashed in big flames taking about three months 
> of 
> careful prepared material, photo editing, writing, scanning each photo and 
> all the other aspects of producing a new photography book on the life and 
> times of the old guy. One can only say.... "What the hell that'll teach 
> you 
> not to back-up every single moment!"  The truth? Well I did some of it. 
> Please note...."some of it." :-(
> 
> The only reason I'm telling you? I have to tell someone or slash my wrists 
> or cut my throat and at the moment I thought telling someone was the 
> better 
> of the options! :-)
> 
> Besides I can't do it right now because we begin heavy duty production on 
> the BRAVO TV documentary tomorrow on my wild wild life as a 
> photojournalist. 
> And I didn't want to disappoint you in seeing and hearing the tales of my 
> wild and sordid life. ;-)
> 
> By now I'm sort of over the gut wrenching crying anguish of yesterday. It 
> also seems the only way to correct the computer situation completely is 
> dump 
> the whole thing and go new, right now this is a sort of hatched together 
> machine. Another thing I need not face at the moment, re-loading 
> everything! 
> I of course being a photographer and not a techie will not be involved in 
> doing any of this make over.
> 
> I leave for as far away as possible as I do not want to see any of this 
> resurrection! When everything is ready to rock and roll in it's complete 
> simplicity of operation... slightly above "moron operator" state I shall 
> sit 
> before it and start again.
> 
> Mean while I'll begin the search for slides & negs for re-scanning, along 
> with prints to flatbed scan.
> 
> Sorry if this put you off your feed, but thank you for being there as crew 
> to listen. As you've helped make me feel better and now I'll put the 
> straight razor away! ;-) Best part?
> 
> Nobody died... I was close!:-(  But all, well most of it, will rise again 
> complete with an incredible lesson learned! BACK-UP EVERY MOMENT! No 
> haranguing please, I've had all I can take at the moment! As she who must 
> be 
> obeyed has beat all of you to it and better. :-) Oh geeeeesh the woman 
> hasn't helped one iota!:-) But what the hell I still love her. :-)
> 
> ted
> 
> 
> 
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