I used Cherry Systems, http://www.cherrysystems.com/home.html, a while back to recover hdd with corrupted io controller (or something like that - don't remember by now). I've shopped around, and they were by far the cheapest. OnTrack is a known brand in this industry, but also was much more expensive. See if these guys would give you a better quote (for consumer grade recovery I believe the price range I believe was $300-$900, depending on level of tooling required, guaranteed not to be more than $900, but that was 3-4 years ago).
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/> ~
