lost emails

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Hi,

My computer was hit by lightening a couple of months ago and even the
technician could not get the hd working. It is completely dead. We
need to extract some emails that concern a lawsuit. The emails are
from an old internet service and from 2005. Does anyone know how I can
find these emails another way?

Thanks,

kpdeg
 
My computer was hit by lightening a couple of months ago and even the
technician could not get the hd working. It is completely dead. We
need to extract some emails that concern a lawsuit. The emails are
from an old internet service and from 2005. Does anyone know how I can
find these emails another way?
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No backups for something as important as that?

A_C
 
Unfortunately not. At the time they were emails regarding new
employment and payscales. We just now have been hit with a lawsuit!

Thanks,

kpdeg
 
Unfortunately not. At the time they were emails regarding new
employment and payscales. We just now have been hit with a lawsuit!
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[Sorry, I just had throw in that little wrist slap. I'm continually
amazed at how people manage their important data]

Assuming these were emails from a typical POP3 mailbox, there's
virtually no chance you can recover them from your ISP. The only
practical option would be to send your hard drive to a data recovery
service.

http://www.acsdata.com/
http://www.datarecovery.net/
http://www.harddriverecovery.org/

You will have to decide just how important this email is to you, as
these service are typically VERY expensive. The last quote I got was
over $1,000 and success is not guaranteed.

Shop around and be fully cognizant of all the terms. There's a lot if
shiesters out there.

A_C
 
Agent_C said:
Unfortunately not. At the time they were emails regarding new
employment and payscales. We just now have been hit with a lawsuit!
Click to expand...

[Sorry, I just had throw in that little wrist slap. I'm continually
amazed at how people manage their important data]

Assuming these were emails from a typical POP3 mailbox, there's
virtually no chance you can recover them from your ISP. The only
practical option would be to send your hard drive to a data recovery
service.

http://www.acsdata.com/
http://www.datarecovery.net/
http://www.harddriverecovery.org/

You will have to decide just how important this email is to you, as
these service are typically VERY expensive. The last quote I got was
over $1,000 and success is not guaranteed.

Shop around and be fully cognizant of all the terms. There's a lot if
shiesters out there.

A_C
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Thank you for the info!
 
I've had considerable hardware experience with this problem, so I'll outline
the obvious steps as they *may* have been overlooked. Lightning (note sp.)
damage is often (but not always) confined to the various external ports
and/or power supply, and sometimes propagates to the motherboard. It is the
minute contact areas inside solid state devices (ICs and transistors) that
are vulnerable to lightning, and it is unusual for a hard disk to fail. So
the first thing to do is to remove the hard disk and work in another
computer. Second, it is in my experience unheard of for the actual disk
chamber assembly (platters, heads etc.) to be affected, so there may be a
need to replace the electronic assembly associated with the disk. Best way
to do this is to obtain a new hard disk of the same type and carefully
transfer the electronics assembly to your disk. If you are unsure about
hardware, there are many specialist disk recovery companies that are very
familiar with this process.

Let us know how you go.
 
Dear aalan,

Thank you for this information. My husband is an electronics engineer
and I will give him this info and hopefully he can do this! If not,
what company would you recommend? We do not want to get involved with a
sheister! If my husband has more questions about this can he contact
you directly?

Thank you,

kpdeg
 
Hi, I'm in Australia and can't recommend any particular recovery companies.

As your husband is an electronics engineer he won't be needing my advice!
But I read this newsgroup at least once a day, normally.
Good luck.
 
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