In those old buildings it could be a million things. Just be happy he wasn't asleep and killed by the carbon monoxide.
if theres some money left over from the insurance then you should send the hard drives off to a data recovery company they are usually quite good at what they do
Sounds like he's long gone from the place. I used to do data recovery for business. I would clean the drives, find an exact match off ebay with the same firmware. Open the drive in a cleanbox and swap the platters.
that sounds easy for a simple one or two machine drive failure but sounds a little impractical for a 20gb spread across multipliable machines specially if the drives are of all different types sure thats what a data recovery service is gonna do if the bored are fried
well i meant more along the lines of having to hunt down exact model numbers and firmware versions of each drive also data density differs from manufacture to manufacture so it be striate plug and play is kinda difficult its that firmware thats the issue some have 2 platters other have as many as 6 i guess thats why getting the original drive working s preferred then cloning the data onto another drive like you said same drive model and firmware bored then from there its recovered
Well that would include me actually finding the melted remains of the hard drives...heh. The second floor collapsed into the first. The light you see is from the sun. The hard drives were on the second floor...
well you would be surprised what hell fire hard drives can survive it looks like the fire wasn't terribly aggressive and was a slow burn hard drives had survived camp fires before not direct in the coals but directly in the smoke and fire ether way i wish you alot of luck with rebuilding your company
Least your still here Eric, as devastating as it is to lose material posessions least you survived it. Most things can be replaced but people can't
I just read this, I am sorry to hear that you lost everything Eric. Hope your insurance company cough up and you can start again. On a related note, a big Famicom collector in America who ran Flashback Electronics also had his house burn down and he lost everything he had too http://www.famicomworld.com/forum/index.php?topic=7366.0
>.< i just read what happened... and I hope everything is working out for you. Jordan Harris Grozny Design Bureau
