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On 03/07/07, Rick Edwards <rick.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi [_],
>
> just over a week ago our office got struck by lightning (seriously, it
> blew the roof off the building) and it pretty much fried every
> electronic device in the office (including the phones and the
> doorbell!). Now we've managed to replace most bits and pieces
> including our office server but by going through disaster recovery it
> would appear there's certain things missing off of the backup tapes
> (yeah, yeah, we know).
>
> Now, we have a couple of 146GB Ultra 320 SCSI hard drives that came
> out of a DELL PowerEdge 2600 server that should contain the missing
> info. Server is completely dead, can't turn it on so it looks like the
> power supply is fried (for a start). The problem is that the new
> server supplied by DELL is RAID 5 and these disks came out of a RAID 1
> machine. DELL no longer support the PowerEdge and have recommended we
> don't try and do anything with it in case someone gets electrocuted.
>
> So is there anyone out there that can handle these disks, see if they
> work, and grab the data or can anyone recommend a reputable recovery
> business based in or around Bristol that can retrieve the data. We've
> found somewhere in Belfast that'll do a 24 hour turnaround for 800
> quid (apparently), but we're nervous about posting these babies to
> ireland and would prefer to deliver them in person to someone locally.
>
> We've opened up the box and it looks like the SCSI controller is on
> the motherboard so we can't simply replace the SCSI controller card.
>
> Any advice gratefully recieved as the directors are hopping about
> worried that their word docs have gone up in smoke :-)
>
> rick (not Rick)
>
> Disclaimer: I don't do hardware, don't even pretend to do hardware, so
> if any of the above sounds like techno mumble then I apologise, I'm
> just repeating what I was told (m'lord)
>
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These guys are reasonably local: http://www.datastor.co.uk/ - up near
Wotton-under-Edge.

Other thing to say is are there any backups? (RAID isn't a replacement for
backup)

Cheers

Andy