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From: Ian J Cottee <ian@cottee.org>
Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan
Subject: Nagoya/Japan Macintosh Data Recovery
Date: 16 Nov 2003 10:20:30 +0900
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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