Reccomend Data recovery service

Supercow · 3 Oct 2007 at 10:34

My bosses' laptop died, which contains his financial software and data on it for the last few years, and has not backed it up.

Unfortunately when he tries and boots it up (Win98) the error message "operating system not found" appears.

I have done all the things I can think of (granted not all that many) by trying to check the boot sequence, booting off a floppy and running a chkdsk, scandisk - all seem to have seen the c: with no issues.

Done some googling but couldn't really find a definitive answer. It's such an old laptop, the bios isn't all that useful either. Not sure form what I see whether it reads the hard drive or not.

Any ideas of where I can send this laptop to - or have a last blast at it myself?

Supercow · 3 Oct 2007 at 11:15

If I copy the data accross, just as is - will the application data still be in tact you reckon ?

RVF said:
Stop messing with it and give it to someone who knows what they are doing!

I AM the only person who has any idea

Supercow · 3 Oct 2007 at 12:52

Some accounting software - don't really know what it is.
The financial data is in the application - so I doubt purely copying data across will help.

Can you recommend any specialists who can recover something like this?

Supercow · 3 Oct 2007 at 13:42

Well - he should have had a backup, but it's nowhere to be found.
It's supposed to have backed up the data to our internal network, but something happened there as well.

Yeap old software is still kicking around - will have a go at getting the files - he just said that the data from the software can be copied over and it reinstalled.

Cheers for the input - will let you know how it goes.

Supercow · 3 Oct 2007 at 15:12

Aww that sounded like a good solution - but yea it's Win 98

I just went and bought the Caddy - now to find a screw driver that fits!

Supercow · 3 Oct 2007 at 15:14

Would running Ubuntu off the installation disk work - will you be able to see the files on the HDD ?