Re: please help me get my work back

[Michael James <Michael.James@csiro.au>]

On Fri, 27 May 2005 01:09 am, Jos Houtman wrote:
> daniel.leo@free.fr wrote:
> 
> >human aspect : lots of work on a hardrive that I can't acce
> >
> >May 26 12:02:02 [kernel] ata1: status=0x51
> >	{ DriveReady SeekComplete Error } 

> >
> To me this looks like a hardware error, the disk most probably died.
> personally i dont know a way to recover from this,
> except having good backups.
> But you could contact a compamy specialised in disc/data recovery.

The fault could be in the controller
 in which case you should be able to
 swap the card from another identical disk.

If the problem is in the platters then then it's either
 backups (cheap) or professional data recovery (expensive).

Decide at the start if there is enough money at stake
 to call the professionals.
Any mucking you do is likely to make things harder.

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