Last time I used a professional data recovery service, it cost in the neighborhood of $2300 (DriveSavers). However, a company called Gillware has a special offer for customers of Apple retail stores. If you contact them, and tell them you were referred by the Apple store, they charge $800 flat rate, including the new drive and shipping. It's not a cheap solution, but it is much cheaper than other companies I've checked out.
Hope this helps! Bryan . On Nov 5, 2007, at 7:23 PM, b3studios wrote: > I wouldn't have any at all. > > I had a total meltdown of my digital life today. > > I was backing up my system to my external drive today. Hadn't done so > since installing Leopard last week. As SuperDuper! had has not put out > a Leopard update, I went the old fashioned way and used Disk Utility. > > Disk utility erased by bootable backup drive and began to copy over my > laptops hard drive. > about an hour into the process, everything froze for over 25 min. > I figured that I would just power down, restart and start over. > > When I restarted, I got the dreaded flashing folder with a "?". > It seems that my hard drive decided to take a nose dive. And while it > was at it, none of my user files had been copied over to the backup > yet. > The last few years of my digital life, up in "smoke". > > Luckily, I do have most, if not all of my music on my iPod. I think > all of our pictures are on the wife's Macbook, I'll just have to re- > enter the Keywords for over 10,000 photos. > > Sadly, all of my personal files are gone, as are my notes for an exam > on thursday... > > I've tried hardware test, booting from the install disc, and > DiskWarrior. > Nothing will even recognize the drive as existing. Also, there was a > clicking sound coming from the hard drive while it was trying to boot > up. > > I have another (smaller) HD for my macbook, so I'm not completely > without a computer, but man this sucks. The drive is still under > warranty, so WD will replace it... > > Is it possible to salvage information off of a fail hard drive? > Somewhere I can take it? > > I'd *really* like to be able to get my documents off this thing. > > Rick > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be November 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > Bryan -- Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. Walt Disney
