Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Tony Williams on September 05, 2001, 01:43:00 AM
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I have recently had some bad news. My home PC has been damaged beyond economic repair and the data on the hard disk cannot be recovered. This data includes many image files of aircraft guns which people have kindly sent to me for the next book I am working on, together with their email addresses. Yes, I know I should have backed it all up but the image files were too big to store on floppy disks and I was just beginning to think that a CD writer would be a good investment...
It will take me some time to get a replacement on line. In the meantime, I can access my private emails from work, but not easily open attachments. If there is anything you would like to send me please contact me first! If you have previously sent me any pictures, I would be very grateful if you could contact me.
Tony Williams
Author: "Rapid Fire: The development of automatic cannon, heavy machine guns and their ammunition for armies, navies and air forces"
Details on my military gun and ammunition website: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~autogun/index.htm (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~autogun/index.htm)
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DAMN!! sorry to hear that Tony... Have you tried a professional data recovery company?
Good luck!
SKurj
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Originally posted by SKurj:
DAMN!! sorry to hear that Tony... Have you tried a professional data recovery company?
Good luck!
SKurj
Thanks for you good wishes - I have been quoted $3000 with no guarantee of success....
Tony Williams
Author: "Rapid Fire: The development of automatic cannon, heavy machine guns and their ammunition for armies, navies and air forces"
Details on my military gun and ammunition website: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~autogun/index.htm (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~autogun/index.htm)
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Sorry to ad yet another "that sucks post" but, that really does. :( I hope this all works out well for you in the long run!
Westy
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If your hard disk is physically damaged recovery is expensive. If it's only a software problem, like damaged FAT table or corrupt partion, eg from a virus, data recovery is simple and should be cheap.
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My advise to you would be not to give up...
If the HD was damaged physicly and a company quote you 3000$ with no gurantee, then you need to look for better proffesionals :D that do not ask for so much money. Good place to look for would be Russia, as there are a lot of really good technicians who would do it for 100$.
I am in Central America right now and obviosly cant help you, but a for instance Boroda probably can.. His in Russia and i imagine if you send him your HD via DHL,UPS etc maybe there will be a chance..
Anyway I had laptop HD problem as it failed and for 30$ one company was able to recover all of my data, not the HD tho.
Contact someone you know and give it a try, as I am sure a lot of us would be glad to help you out...
P.S. and buy yourself ZIP and CD-RW - thats a second advise ;)
Good luck
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Thanks again - I have ordered a new PC, complete with CD writer.....
Tony Williams
Author: "Rapid Fire: The development of automatic cannon, heavy machine guns and their ammunition for armies, navies and air forces"
Details on my military gun and ammunition website: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~autogun/index.htm (http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~autogun/index.htm)