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Originally Posted by snap-tech

If you have a snap and it will not mount the drive so that you can see the data, or will not boot so that you can at least get access to web administration page!

1. Do not insert that drive into another snap server. Even if they were running
the same OS.

If you do, and the new snap does see drive but does not see a valid
snap filesystem, it will initialize the drive and format the fats.

The only time that you would be safe in doing this is if it was not the HD that
failed, and it was the server itself that failed somehow. therefore the HD
filesystem should be completely intact and ok.

If you are determined to try that then make sure you do a full sector to sector
copy of that drive to another drive that has same amount of sectors or is larger.
Then insert the copied drive and see if you can access at.

2. There is no piece of software or utility or way of mounting the filesystem
that will allow you recover the data except for the following way.

There is only 2 ways to recover files off a snap.

A. Obviously the first way is to gain access through a working snap as it
should be.

B. The second way is to use a specially writtin utility that understands how
the data is structured on a snap and can extract data to another drive.
these utilities do exsist, but only in the hands of a professional data
recovery company, who studied and wrote the utility inhouse.

I happend to be one who has this utility!!!!

I worked for Snap and supported Snap Servers for 2 years.


So basically if you have a snap that you are no longer able to access the
data and you need the data then please do contact me.

Most data recovery companies charge approx $2,000 on up for snap
snap recoveries.

In my case --- no reasonable offer will be refused. So take a chance,
contact me and we will go over failure details, then make me an offer.

I will also except other forms of payment. What have you got to trade and
don't need or want anymore.

Snap-Tech

God, if we had copies of this!

But thanks for teh offers for this tho!