Suggestions for recovery of laptop HDD?

[James Knott]

talexb-SBdzbUvMQDunS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> A colleague of mine has fried his laptop HDD and has an old, not very
> current backup. He'd really like to recover the data. Are there any data
> recovery companies (local or otherwise) that you can recommend -- or not
> -- in this situation?
> 
> Windows XP just grinds and announces that there's no disk available, and
> Knoppix doesn't see the disk either. I don't know what brand of laptop he
> has, but I can find that out if it will make any difference. Thanks!

There was a presentation at the TLUG meeting a few months ago, by 
someone who recovers data.  I don't recall the name though.
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