[Pa-furry] Local Fur needs puter help!

[Kyraeus]

Hey James,

Depends what OS you're running, what exactly happened to it, and how it 
killed itself.  If the drive itself took a bork and the heads crashed 
(usually characterized by loud noises from the drive when you try to 
boot the system, and the inability to get anywhere past the BIOS 
checks), then you're most likely out of luck.  There's services that can 
strip data directly off the plates, but generally unless it's financial 
data, it's not worth paying their charge to do so.

If it's just the OS that's shot, and the drive is fine, most times you 
can simply hok it up to another working computer as a slave and rip the 
data you need right off of it.  I'm not a pittsburgher, but that's a 
very general assessment.  Based on your issue, you might want to get a 
pro in on things to check it out, see what's up, and try to recover 
what's on it.  If it's just a lot of furry pr0n, and some other random 
pics and stuff, Might be loads cheaper just to find what you can again, 
and start over with the rest.  Lord knows it wouldn't be the first time 
I've done that.

Otherwise, if anyone else has a bit more knowledge than I do, beyond the 
usual 'heads crashed? replace the drive and learn to back up data in the 
future', please lend a paw as there's not much else I can really say.



James S Cole wrote:
> My computer had a major melt down, and I am sure it's impossible to fix. 
> Do any PGH furs know about file reterval?  My OS is fragged to death and
> I want ym files back :(
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