"Ian J Cottee" <ian@cottee.org> wrote in message
news:86k7611541.fsf@littledevil.internal.zobbo.org...
> 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.
>

Compumart PC shop, near Nagoya station, seem to have some sort of 'computer
doctor' section on the 5th floor.  So I wonder if the Compumart Mac shop
across the street has a similar set up.


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jonathan