[Techtalk] Disk recovery?

[Rudy L. Zijlstra]

Hello,

I've a 60G disk from a friend that he could'nt read anymore. Linux 
basically tells me that lba sectors 0 up to and including 6 are 
unreadable. In other words, the most important sectors have gone to 
bitheaven.

Considering that he had (has?) at least half a year of intensive work on 
that disk, I have 2 questions:

(1) Any suggestions on how to get data from that disk with the following 
provisos:
      - its circuitry is at least partially to HW heaven as well, i can 
only get it working as slave, not as master (not recognised on the bus 
with no other device present)
      - So it may well be that the platter is OK, but the circuitry is 
not, resulting in the found problems
      - I have no clue as to what the partition layout was (only that is 
was all M$ FAT32, and several paritions).
      - (because of different projects) i happen to have several disks 
lying around that are big enough for a dd copy.

(2) Any suggestions for a european data recovery center / company?


Cheers,


Rudy

P.S. owner is not on the copy list, and has been told loudly and clearly 
that he's a fool for not making backups