Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 18:48 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > RC bugs in stable right now is O (zero) > > RC == Release Critical (or so I've been told) > > Since Stable is already released... well you draw the conclusion. Just search bugs.debian.org to convince yourself o

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-13 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: Any kind of noise like that can't be good, though. Definitely time to get a new disk. Not necessarily. Some discs have a grounding strap which can develop an annoying squeal, but which is harmless to the disc. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-13 Thread Joey Hess
Greg Folkert wrote: > Well, you see, there are LOTS of bugs discovered in the first few months > after Stable release. Its a proved fact that testing doesn't get tested > enough, until it is migrated to stable. Many, many latent bugs are > discovered right after release. Things only tremendous amou

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 18:48 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 09:54 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > >>> Greg Folkert wrote: > >>> > Also, Kamaraju, I believe I sent an e-mail to your gmail account. An > up

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 09:54 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: >>> Greg Folkert wrote: >>> Also, Kamaraju, I believe I sent an e-mail to your gmail account. An update to your howto. >>> For those who do not know, Greg is talking about >>>

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: >> Greg Folkert wrote: >> >>> Also, Kamaraju, I believe I sent an e-mail to your gmail account. An >>> update to your howto. >> >> For those who do not know, Greg is talking about >> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/debian_choosing

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 09:54 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > Greg Folkert wrote: > > > >> Also, Kamaraju, I believe I sent an e-mail to your gmail account. An > >> update to your howto. > > > > For those who do not know, Greg is talking about > > http://www.peopl

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/13/07 01:44, Manu Hack wrote: > On 2/12/07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The laptop used to work fine (no errors in the log files, no grinding >> noises). One fine day when it was moved from one place to another and >> the

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > >> Also, Kamaraju, I believe I sent an e-mail to your gmail account. An >> update to your howto. > > For those who do not know, Greg is talking about > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/debian_choosing_distribution.html Nice page. One sm

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-12 Thread Manu Hack
On 2/12/07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The laptop used to work fine (no errors in the log files, no grinding noises). One fine day when it was moved from one place to another and then it stopped booting. The BIOS does not even recognize the hard drive. The hard drive does not

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-12 Thread Mike McCarty
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: [snip] more important than on the Windows. Luckily, there are backups available. But I want to get a general idea of how tough it would have been if there were no backups. It's good that you have backups. Good data recovery is expensive. The laptop used to work fi

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/12/07 20:12, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: [snip] > The laptop used to work fine (no errors in the log files, no grinding > noises). One fine day when it was moved from one place to another and then > it stopped booting. The BIOS does not even recog

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Greg Folkert wrote: > Also, Kamaraju, I believe I sent an e-mail to your gmail account. An > update to your howto. For those who do not know, Greg is talking about http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/debian_choosing_distribution.html I used to think, there is no way that page could further

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-12 Thread John Hasler
Kamaraju Kusumanchi writes: > One fine day when it was moved from one place to another and then it > stopped booting. The BIOS does not even recognize the hard drive. The > hard drive does not spin. I believe that the problem could be a bad > controller or a bad motor. So it needs to be taken into

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 21:12 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Can someone recommend a professional data recovery service center (in USA) > to recover a ext3 filesystem on a 60 GB IDE laptop hard drive? The hard > drive belongs to a Toshiba Satellite p25-s507 laptop and has both Debian > Etch (ext