I just received a sales Email from Drive Savers. In it, they mentioned they recovered data for Bruce Willis. One thing really caught my eye... They describe physical damage to the platter, talk about reading around the damaged platter, and then magically 'reconstructed' the data, recovering ALL his data! I'd really love to have a 'Data Reconstructor' machine. What do you guys think?

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"Mr. Willis didn't have a current backup when his drive recently died. Mike Mullen, owner of Mac Mentor of Southern California, determined that the drive needed to go to DriveSavers. Our engineers found severe media damage, performed surgery on the damaged read/write heads and replaced the actuator arms.

During normal operation, a drive's read/write heads float on a cushion of air above the disk platter surface; in this episode, the heads plowed into the platters.

DriveSavers cleanroom engineers are able to control exactly where the drive heads read during a recovery, preventing further damage as they extract the data.

It was touch-and-go for the logical recovery team. Because of the severe media damage, much of the data needed to be reconstructed. After hours and hours of painstakingly tedious work, we were able to deliver the Die Hard star his data back--completely intact, leaving the door open for a future sequel."

Well, just see it as a sales talk.
Take it with a whole bunch of salt

Dobre

Duh ! >.< is that so easy ??

Special self floating heads............ or maybe they sprayed the platters with Pam to make the heads slip over the scratches

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