Data Recovery

[Sandman]

Anybody know of a good data recovery company that charges reasonable rates?

[sms001]

Anybody know of a good data recovery company that charges reasonable rates?

Physical or software damage? Any place that recovers from physical damage is gonna be an arm and leg I'm afraid. If it's a fat crash or formatting or erasure, you might try doing it yourself. Lemme know and I'll give you a couple of recommendations. (Also, what medium?)

[Sandman]

looks like drive failure. I found a place that charges $249 for any kind of repair (minor physical as in drive failure) or just software damage.

I got the dreaded I/O error and my computer almost freezes up when I connect it. I grabbed another drive and it works fine, so I know it's the drive.

[technical.angel]

I think that's the usual price range. All much the better if it's a flate charge.

[Sandman]

Which it is.. and if they can't get a good enough portion of the data to my liking, it's no charge.

[technical.angel]

I'd go for it, unless someone else pipes up.

It's pretty much even, or less, from what I've heard, and you can beat that deal.

How much important stuff was on there?

[Sandman]

Most of it was music collected over the years that the CD's have been scratched afterwords. some of it were videos and pictures that I don't think I backed up after I migrated them over to the external.

[technical.angel]

I'll have my fingers crossed for you!

[digilight]

Is this an internal or externail drive. Is it your main boot disc (C Drive) or is it a slave. If it is currently your boot disc, have you tried setting it up as your slave.

If it is a external drive what type is it. You may be able to crack the case and set it up as a slave in order to transfer the data off.

As far as data recoverey goes. We have had to do it once. We had a drive go to the inbox in the sky and it had data that we could not afford to lose on it. The price on recovery was around 2 grand at that time (Around 8-10 years ago).

I would try and set it up as a internal slave if you haven't allready.

[sms001]

Is this an internal or externail drive. Is it your main boot disc (C Drive) or is it a slave. If it is currently your boot disc, have you tried setting it up as your slave. If it is a external drive what type is it.


Yeah, what he said. :)

If your BIOS is recognizing it at boot (assuming it is as slave) then I've had good results with both:

Using a Linux "Live Boot" CD (Most of the "try before installing" Linux flavors mount windows partitions automatically so you can see how they work with YOUR files...)

or the nice people at Convar:
http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file_recovery/info.htm?language=1

Obviously, your big concerns are not doing any more damage to the drive (by writing to it for instance) and having someplace available to copy whatever you can extract.

I've done disaster recovery with both the options above (Recently :( ) so give a yell if you decide to go that route. On the other tentacle, your place's quote is VERY reasonable, especially with that subjective guarantee.

Good luck.

[Sandman]

Tried DSL, to no avail. It's a Maxtor OneTouch (the first series).

I'm gonna do the data recovery, but has gone on the back burner thanks to the wonderful people at a city DPW and their lack of plowing the roads