i hear some mob advertising on radio, need someone who is cheapish

any recommendations

Get some Knoppix up ya?

How bad is the HDD?

http://www.payam.com.au/

How bad is the HDD?

been throwing up a smart warning for the past two years, but old mate decided to ignore that and store all his baby photos on it

didnt try a boot cd, but in windows, any explorer activity involving the drive results in a window not responding

chuck 'er in the freezer for 20 minutes and then have rstudio ready to go

or stellar Phoenix

yes
however this usually doesn't phase getdataback

Rather than go for Knoppix try one of the really small Live CD's like Damn Small Linux or Puppy Linux.

I like Puppy: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-4.3.1/pup-431.iso

105MB, whack it on a disk and boot from it. See if you can mount the HDD and copy s*** off onto USB key or USB HDD.

Restore the back-up.

been throwing up a smart warning for the past two years, but old mate decided to ignore that and store all his baby photos on it

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Also, what a f***ing retard.

This is so mega *sigh*

Restore the back-up.

:D

haha, yer, no backup either;

and i told him after 12 months to throw the disk out and stop using it, but he chose to ignore me;

i would have tried to remove the hd myself and chuck it in the freezer for some rstudio goodness, however its a hp machine, and i couldnt work out how to get hte f***ing hd's out of it

Rather than go for Knoppix try one of the really small Live CD's like Damn Small Linux or Puppy Linux

Or maybe say, a Linux distro designed for data recovery?

SystemRescueCD

chuck 'er in the freezer for 20 minutes and then have rstudio ready to go

Bad advice leaving out the "in a sealed bag" bit!

CBL Data Recovery come to mind, we have used CBL in the past they are pretty good at drive rebuilds

One of the ocau sponsors is Datarecover or something you get a discount with the mention of ocau.

Maybe old mate needs smart monitoring, being that he is not that smart at all

Or maybe say, a Linux distro designed for data recovery?

Smart arse.

(*cough* bookmarked...)

Do not recover the photos, the person has voided your service contract by ignoring your advise and not backing up.
He won't learn if he always gets saved.
If you do go ahead and recover the stuff for him make sure you lose some so that he will be more careful in future.
Yes I know he's a mate, it's called "tough love" and it is definitely called for here.

justrev has no pals irl

and i told him after 12 months to throw the disk out and stop using it, but he chose to ignore me;

this is the point where you don't help any further.

^^^
No this is the point where the hourly rate jumps up significantly, I give advice for free, I'll even do builds and software installs for free but I charge $$$ for doing s*** that is preventable (ie stupid).

mass is right
idiot tax is where you make the big $$
i remember one time i had a job for some real idiots i didn't want to do
the job was piss easy but they were painful
quoted $80/hr
they said ok
i lol'd all the way to the bank

fail ^
teq doesn't get out of bed for less than 160/hr

my, aren't we on an ego trip today?
careful of that head mate, you'll have trouble fitting it through the doorway soon

and i couldnt work out how to get hte f***ing hd's out of it

Ice T will show you how :) (yeah I know, posted it before, it just seems right for this moment)



Also, I have a hard drive that causes the system to lock on bootup if its attached to the motherboard. Do you think any of the above (other than Ice T) might help?

Is that the vid where he finds the "kewlin' prawngs?"

yes hardware, thats why i roll with 100% diesel and you have to supplement your ford with cheap and nasty, low power lpg

yeah I'll do it dude

$500 a gig (50% off cause he's a mate)

;)

You don't get paid 160 per hour though, do you :) Following the basic business model of thirds you'd be on about 50-55?

Mind you I'll eat my f***ing words happily and cheer you if you're on 300k+ PA dude.

Back on topic, if it was a very good friend I'd do it for nothing depending on time available. Otherwise I just do the 'sorry can't help you, that's a bit specialised' bit and hands-off.

yer, i care too much;
i did as much as i could, but i dont have time or resources for propper data recovery

or punctuation

ohsnap

Given the harddrive has priceless memories on it I'm guessing his missus (after the yelling and screaming) just told him to fix it. Charge whatever you like, I wouldn't do a job like that for less than $500. I'd also be charging them $100 just to look at it and see what can be done.

Mass is on the money

Hardware; not everyone works 40 hour weeks

Given the harddrive has priceless memories on it I'm guessing his missus (after the yelling and screaming) just told him to fix it. Charge whatever you like, I wouldn't do a job like that for less than $500. I'd also be charging them $100 just to look at it and see what can be done.

I had an in-law gimme a 50 dorra myer voucher because I put some ram I had lying around in their computer + found a few drivers. I was rage but they wouldn't take it back :(

You don't get paid 160 per hour though, do you :)

heh.. for dr jobs I do.

the idea of it being stupidly expensive is that it shocks the client into taking backups seriously.

I'm serial

$500 is pretty dam cheap really, most of the jobs I send in are in the 4-9k bracket. Some impressive s*** too even one that was fire damaged and had the ide connector melted clean off, and needed a new board and the motor was fused. Normally I cap most dr jobs at 5 hours labor, charge rate is $96 + GST + board if needed of which I see about $28 an hour for every hour billed anything I can't fix gets forwarded on to someone like cbl, there isn't anyone I would trust in nz to do it properly.

If you're looking for forensic style data recovery, Kroll Ontrack at South Brisbane are really good. IIRC, they'll charge you $99 for a quote and details of exactly what they can recover. After that, it's between about $600 and $3200 to recover the data (regardless of the quantity, the determining factor is the difficulty of the recovery).

Tell them you were recommended to them by a member of the SMBIT Professionals group. Might get you a discount (but might not :P)