Re: hard disk problem data recovery

techyinfo <techyinfo.2747f23@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in part:
> Today my hard disk got crash it was placed out side for
> testing but when it replugged it smoked and was not able
> to boot. I have an im****tant do***ent in it so, please help
> me to find the way to recover my data.

While disks often have read errors and may become extremely
slow or unbootable, this is the first I've heard of a disk
actually "smoking" without being hot-plugged or shorted.

Unfortunately, in this state the disk is likely unrecoverable
in its current drive and would need the platters remounted
in a different mechanism.  This is a very specialized service
typically costing many $100s with no guarantee the data
won't be at least partially corrupted.

This is why people make backups.

-- Robert