On 26 Jan 2010 at 14:26, Alverson, Tom (Xetron) 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.
Try the freezer trick, it worked for me once. Also, spinrite (grc.com, $89, 30-day moneyback guarantee if it doesn't help) can sometimes help IF the drive will spin up. Ontrack data recovery (google 'em) will give estimates by email. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 +-----------------------------------+ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
