Speculating about the increased cost they quoted...probably has to be done more than one time to pull the data from it. The drive may heat up enough where it locks up again, so they have to go back and freeze it multiple times...a hassle.
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]>wrote: > Seems like it could be a good candidate for the freezer trick... > > http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recover-data.html > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> A friend has an external Seagate 1TB drive that died on them and it has the >> only copy of a lot of the photos they took. I took the USB enclosure apart >> and connected the SATA drive up directly to a PC, but the motor does not >> spin at all (you can hear the heads move some at power up). She took it to >> a local shop where they said it would cost $300 to recover the data, but >> then changed that to $1000 when they found out it was a “large” drive (1TB). >> >> >> >> Does anyone know of a good affordable place that will do this? Their >> pictures are not worth $1000 at this point. >> >> >> >> Tom >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
