Greeting, Monks.

My apologies for the non-perl posting, but I am hoping someone in the Monks' great pool of talent and knowledge can help a friend of mine. Here is a snippet from his email:

I'm calling with a plea for help. PersonX's G3 ibook harddrive got wiped clean yesterday (it froze, PersonX called tech support, they had PersonX do a system reinstall..grr). PersonX's thesis was on there and we don't have backups. Does anyone out there know of anyway of at least attempting to recover some of the data?

In summary:

Does anyone know any techniques to attempt to recover the thesis, and/or a good data recovery firm the iBook could be shipped to, so that more than an object less on backup importance can come from this disaster?

Much thanks,

Kester

In reply to OFF-TOPIC-- Data recover from reinstalled Mac OSX by kesterkester

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