Did the laptop just die or was there mechanical noise then failure... I have equipment and am willing to help you as a courtesy or a pizza...LOL. From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Troy Murray Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 12:36 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [MSUNAG] Hard Drive Data Recovery Recommendations I had very good results with Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery (http://www.stellarinfo.com/disk-recovery.htm). -t On 5/14/09 12:19 PM, "Samone E Jones" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Does anyone have any good recommendations for hard drive data recovery. We need to recover data from a laptop hard drive. Any good local suggestions (preferably) but I'll take any good recommendations. Thanks, Samone ANR Technology Services 221 Ag Hall 517-353-4890 -- Troy Murray Systems/Database Administrator Michigan State University Clinical And Translational Sciences Biomedical Research Informatics Core (BRIC) 100 Conrad Hall East Lansing, MI 48824 Phone: 517-432-4248 Fax: 517-353-9420 E-mail: [log in to unmask] AOL IM: troymurray72