It might have been a power failure cant remember exctly. Its a hard disk
failure and I am sure there are many failure modes for disks. What Iam
sure for if it is a mechanical failure then the drive wont spin.

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:56:24 +0200, "Toomas Piibe" <[log in to unmask]>
said:
> We have too less information. What kind of crash? I have restored
> overnight e-mails from crashed HD swapping circuit board with identical 
> one and using data recovering software. Plates where still functional
> but before HD died it erased first sectors erasing partitions data.
> Using trial versions I managed restore files but it take quite of timeactly. 
> and backup was made few hours before crash.
> 
> Toomas
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Hugh Vandervoort" <[log in to unmask]>
> 
> > There's not much hope if a drive is defective. Data recovery services 
> > can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars.
> > Once again, the value of a backup program has bes demonstrated.
> > 
> > 
> > Chilangisha B Changwe wrote:
> >> Will this work if the drive is defective somehow? There must be read
> >> somehow and this I guess is a mechanicanical operation followed transfer
> >> of data to memory?
> >> 
> >> chilangisha changwe
> >> 
> >> On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:45:14 -0500, "Hugh Vandervoort"
> >> <[log in to unmask]> said:
> >>> Yes. It's fairly easy and cheap to do, and you'll have a handy backup
> >>> device when you're done.
> >>> It wouldn't be hard to install this as a slave in another machine and
> >>> copy the files if you'd prefer.
> > 
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