When Carrie Bradshaw's computer flaked out on this season's ''Sex and the City,'' she had to deal with a supercilious New York City computer repairman. When ''Sex'' writer-producer Michael Patrick King's laptop died -- holding valuable script and contact information -- he just sent it off to data-recovery engineer John Christopher of the Bay Area-based DriveSavers. His files were back in less than a week.
King isn't the only entertainment luminary to have his butt, er, data saved by Christopher and his colleagues at DriveSavers. Sting, Keith Richards, and Sean Connery -- who FedExed his laptop in from the Bahamas -- have all entrusted their woebegone hard drives to the firm, which boasts a 90 percent success rate (with clients plunking down an average of $700 per job, it had better be successful). DriveSavers has even aided George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic, salvaging some important storyboards from a CPU that crossed over to the dark side.
How do they do it? According to Christopher, most work is done in a so-called clean room, ''a dust-free environment where we have guys in bunny suits who disassemble the drives.'' Bunny suits? Even ''Sex'' kitten Samantha would consider that kinky.
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