ok, here's the situation.
OLD NT4 sp6 dual P3 650 dual scsi drives with one partitioned for C and D and the other not partitioned. raid config.
512 ram full tower computer
dead CD drive dead floppy drive.
taken to pro for data transfer to external hdd and then have recycled.
the tecs first took apart the rig to get the drives out and the rest went to recycle binns. (about a week ago)
the tech guy said upon looking at the contents of the drives, there was no file structure.
he did the transfer and I got the external drive home and the data is fubar. .jpg's are "shredded" and mp3's skip in winamp, media player won't read them at all.
all folder and file names lost. I know the last time I booted up this comp all files were there and readable. it never crashed or lost files in a big way. one or two if I hadn't done a defrag in a while.
now, I didn't think to tell them it was a raid setup. honestly I figured they'd determine exactly what they were dealing with before they ripped into it. I get the feeling the system was highly dependant on these actual components to successfully read the data.
they are willing to continue working on it. so far I paid $130 for the external drive and labor for data transfer. weather they are successful or not I'll at least get the drives back for further attempts. maybe buy and old NT system and see if I can hook it all up ? I have my old OS on the original floppies
so, in this situation what would be the best direction to proceed ?
there is stuff on there I'd like to keep. old download links are gone for alot of the music (not stuff I can buy on CD or get any other way that I know of) the pics I want to keep are similarly hard or impossible to get again. if it was just pr0n I wouldn't care really cause there's no end to that.
thanks for any suggestions