I haven't actually used this company, but a friend of mine recommended
them when I asked if he knew of a data recovery company. They don't
charge anything if they can't recover data, and they say they have a
flat rate price structure that I assume is based on the number of GB
they recover.
ITS ( http://www.datarecoveryspecialist.com/ )
They say the average price of recovery for a desktop or laptop drive is
$450 - $750. It's still a lot of money, but it's still cheaper than $3K.
Todd
Timothy Lin wrote:
A lot is an understatement ,
I remember sending a faculty member's harddrive for data recovery and
the quote was $3K for a 36GB SCSI HDD
They normally don't charge you unless they can recover data from it, but
does your data worth more than 3K ? ;)
J. Milgram wrote:
legend has it that it costs a lot.
clicking means hardware problems, I think.
There was some talk here about a freezing trick. In one version, you get
a large freezer ziplock bag, put your HD in it with some dry ice, run
the cables through the opening, zip shut as far as possible and maybe
seal lightly with tape. Then install just like that in the machine.
Nobody wrote back to say whether it worked or not :)
Yohance Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
All,
I'm new to the um-Linux list and this is my first post. A friend
of mine recommended this list after I told him about a problem I am
having. My power supply, main hard drive and backup hard drive just
went down last Friday after a power surge. The main hard drive wont
turn on and the backup supply won't mount, I can see the partitions
but no matter what I do I can't get it to mount. Also it's making a
lot of clicking noises. I've tried fsck but it returns an error that
includes a bad super block as a possibility.
Anyway, I am looking into sending the main hard drive, the one
that doesn't power on, to a data recovery center. I was hoping
someone on this list could give me some advice on which particular
center I should send my disk to. None of my friends have had to do
this before and I was hoping to get some first hand recommendations
before I send my disk off to some company that promises a lot but and
delivers nothing. Have any of you sent a Hard drive to a data
recovery center before? Were they actually able to recover your
data? How much did it cost you? Would you recommend them to me?
Thanks in advance for the help,
-Yohance
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Todd Karwoski
Computer Assistant
Department of Geology
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD 20742
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Computing Word of the Month:
Hardware
-The parts of a computer which can be kicked
