Steve, I've been fixing and around computers over 20 years, if your guy is
not opening the drive to recover data I know of a few places that do a CSI
type recovery. It ain't cheap, I'll guess between $750 and $1200, and you
only pay for the shipping if they can't get the data back.

Mike



"Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers" wrote in message
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Well, normally I'm a fairly easy going guy, but this has me absolutely
wild! It's happened twice before, and now it's happened again. Some
friggin' $%@^#&* hacked into OutdoorFrontiers.com and bombed the site! I
think I could cheerfully beat on this person until they were a pulp!

I emailed the support people at the web hosting service as I knew they did
routine and regular backups of all their client's sites. I was told that
they evidently backed up my site right after it was hacked, and that the
new (and now useless) backup overwrote the previous one!

And to make matters worse, the external drive that I had the site backed
up to has for some reason decided to puke. I've taken it to a computer
tech to see if he can retrieve the data but he said "Don't get your hopes
up." He did say that if he couldn't get to the data, he wouldn't bill me
for his time. I guess I should at least be thankful for no bill if
there's no data....

What's wrong with people anyway that they have to trash others work?????
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Steve @ OutdoorFrontiers
http://www.outdoorfrontiers.com
G & S Guide Service and Custom Rods
http://www.herefishyfishy.com