Compfix Data Ltd. -Rehema Hse, Lower Ground floor, Standard Street, Nairobi, Kenya Tel: +254 20 2220685 / +254 20 3585585 Cell: +254 721 822422 - Email: info@compfixdata.com website: www.compfixdata.com or www.datarecoverykenya.com ALVIN
Do you recover data from a dead laptop hard drive? dead as in cannot be detected by a computer On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Alvin Jason Ochieng <ajochola@gmail.com>wrote:
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Sam, Call them. I have also used them before !!!!!!!!!!!! On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Sam Nzau<sampishabby@gmail.com> wrote:
Do you recover data from a dead laptop hard drive? dead as in cannot be detected by a computer
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Alvin Jason Ochieng <ajochola@gmail.com> wrote:
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Data recovery. I think I was one of the first ones to start this back in 1996 and had a partner ( James ) who I've not seen for many years now, hopefully he is doing well somewhere. :-) *What do you need for data recovery :* - Clean, dust free room. Medical gloves, anti-static wrist strap. - Various drives that you can remove the controller cards from. For laptops this is too easy - For reading from sectors, use something that is used by security agencies but a level lower. I ordered my lab software from a company in San Francisco who were willing to deal on specialized vetting. *What can you attempt ( if you do not drink heavily.... ), in a worst case scenario.* - Make a glass box with sides for gloves. Open the hdd in a clean air dehumidified dust free room, remove the heads first without scratching the platter surface, then remove the platters. These platters can be installed in a same capacity drive. - Remember to park the heads, then startup as an external drive. Use lab recovery software to read from sectors and read the sectors. The platters can be scratched by even a simple speck of dust, so ensure the opening and closing of the air tight covers is done in a very very very clean place. Incase the problem is the platters itself, you will see the burn marks on them or other markings. Or for very specialized recovery from damaged platters, you will have to ship the drive to labs that recoat these. less chances of recovery. Has much changed these days? My thots.... Rgds.
Seriously, aki, what have you not done? Let me give you a challenge: create a kenyan 'aki' linux distro. Akinux:) I will play the guinea pig On 9/4/09, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
Data recovery. I think I was one of the first ones to start this back in 1996 and had a partner ( James ) who I've not seen for many years now, hopefully he is doing well somewhere. :-)
*What do you need for data recovery :*
- Clean, dust free room. Medical gloves, anti-static wrist strap.
- Various drives that you can remove the controller cards from. For laptops this is too easy
- For reading from sectors, use something that is used by security agencies but a level lower. I ordered my lab software from a company in San Francisco who were willing to deal on specialized vetting.
*What can you attempt ( if you do not drink heavily.... ), in a worst case scenario.*
- Make a glass box with sides for gloves. Open the hdd in a clean air dehumidified dust free room, remove the heads first without scratching the platter surface, then remove the platters. These platters can be installed in a same capacity drive.
- Remember to park the heads, then startup as an external drive. Use lab recovery software to read from sectors and read the sectors.
The platters can be scratched by even a simple speck of dust, so ensure the opening and closing of the air tight covers is done in a very very very clean place. Incase the problem is the platters itself, you will see the burn marks on them or other markings.
Or for very specialized recovery from damaged platters, you will have to ship the drive to labs that recoat these. less chances of recovery.
Has much changed these days? My thots....
Rgds.
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On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Tech List Kenya <techlistkenya@gmail.com>wrote:
Seriously, aki, what have you not done? Let me give you a challenge: create a kenyan 'aki' linux distro. Akinux:)
Boss techlist.. :-) sounds good... If only I had started programming many years earlier, this thing would be a reality soon. I remember hearing in discussions of some guy called linus way back when around the time google was not even born and there used to be search engines like Alta vista, Web crawler, Excite, Lycos...... There is soooooo much that the tech sector has to offer, its waiting to be taken. Hope the younger generation will follow on this and make it happen. :-)
BIG UP !!! @ Aki But that procedure, I don't think they even close to that in heart surgeries! About the so much to be tapped in IT, that's very true especially in this 'continent of ours' Just hope everyone around is trying to reduce on this muuuch. Btw is there anyone in the list who has dealt with the East Afrcan Data Handlers or is there any of their team in the list.Would like to know how their services fair.They've done quite a big and good publicity - it's a high time we know about their quality of service. Chris_w. dabnix@gmail.com On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:07 PM, aki <aki275@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Tech List Kenya <techlistkenya@gmail.com>wrote:
Seriously, aki, what have you not done? Let me give you a challenge: create a kenyan 'aki' linux distro. Akinux:)
Boss techlist.. :-) sounds good... If only I had started programming many years earlier, this thing would be a reality soon. I remember hearing in discussions of some guy called linus way back when around the time google was not even born and there used to be search engines like Alta vista, Web crawler, Excite, Lycos...... There is soooooo much that the tech sector has to offer, its waiting to be taken. Hope the younger generation will follow on this and make it happen. :-)
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On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Chris W. <dabnix@gmail.com> wrote:
BIG UP !!! @ Aki
But that procedure, I don't think they even close to that in heart surgeries! About the so much to be tapped in IT, that's very true especially in this 'continent of ours' Just hope everyone around is trying to reduce on this muuuch.
@Chris, dude. I've done plenty of interesting things in tech sector to try and make a living so my exposure covers many areas. BTW, going off thread, my bank rant the other day has led me further down the road to understand many things now. Infact I'd say that the banking sector is possibly responsible for most of the corruption that happens in any heavy borrowing countries. CBK has been pushing for lower rates by adjusting its own lending rates but banks do not want to pass on to borrowers. So, there is a need for international banks to venture into agreements with local ventures as partners at much lower rates. Keep the profits and taxes here but submit the borrowed amounts. If this is legal, then kiss the local banks goodbye is a grand idea. You cannot borrow eg Ksh 10mil and pay 22 Mil as interest so in total you owe the bank 32Mil! Hakuna, thats pure theft bordering on a grand scale. Lets see where the research ends up at.... :-) Rgds.
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