To Ian J Cottee
 I found some company in web site. but Not cheap.
 and their place of sales office are  Tokyo area.
if you want to repair in Nagoya, do you try to take counsel near 
electric shop ?

http://www.t-alpha.otsuka-shokai.co.jp/drecove/recover/form.htm
http://www.pc-recovery.net/ 
http://www.auinc.co.jp/backup.htm


> Has anybody got any recommendations for a data recovery company in Japan
> (and preferably in the Nagoya area). Its to retrieve some data from a
> friend's Mac's 80 GB HFS+ external drive (Buffalo) which seems to have
> crashed big time.
> 
> So far I have 
> 
>     tried Disk FirstAid
>     tried Norton
>     tried DiskWarrior
>     tried VirtualLab (which may have found something but has currently 
>                       crashed, waiting for their help desk)
>     tried Linux on the PPC (doesn't support HFS+, trying a new kernel 
>                             next week)
> 
> So I want to avoid taking it to some outfit which will charge 50,000 Yen
> for running Norton on it again and then saying there is nothing they can
> do. 
> 
> Recommendations and warnings all welcomed.
> -- 
> Ian J Cottee
> Nagoya, Japan

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