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Old 14th May 2008, 12:42am   #1
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May 12, 2008 -- Jon Edwards often manages what appears impossible. He has recovered precious data from computers wrecked in floods and fires and dumped in lakes. Now Edwards may have set a new standard: He found information on a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003.

Full story here : http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/0...ata-drive.html
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Old 14th May 2008, 12:47am   #2
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The computer was running an ancient operating system
Discovered in the pyramid at Giza presumably...

But aye it was one hell of a BSOD.
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Old 14th May 2008, 12:56am   #3
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Re: Data Recovery

Wow that's pretty impressive. Amazing to think of the damage some hard drives can sustain.
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Wow that's pretty impressive. Amazing to think of the damage some hard drives can sustain.

Aye, one of mine died on the journey to Edinburgh from Glasgow.
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Re: Data Recovery

semi-impressive, but sounds like he just got lucky. the hardest part being to build a new reader, and even at that surely he could just get another of the hard drives and swap the disks?

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but the 340-megabyte drive was only half full
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