Thanks, Stuart. I am not sure of the whole story and what the
detailed symptoms are but have passed your response and others to the
unhappy owner. He may contact you direct.
Severin
On 04/05/2010, at 10:02 AM, Stuart Evans wrote:
Hi Severin,
How bad is it? We do data recovery to a point. If we can't recover
because it's hardware we send it to Kroll Ontrack as their service
agent. Otherwise I have heard good things about Spectrum Data.
Regards
Stuart. (T4).
Sent from my iPhone
On 04/05/2010, at 9:43, Severin Crisp <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks Gavin
On 04/05/2010, at 8:55 AM, Gavin Criddle wrote:
Another good recovery place is Elcotronics in Myaree - same deal,
they'll do a quote and examine the drive first and let you know if
it's possible to get anything back - if it is, they'll include the
quote charge in the final cost.
http://www.elcotronics.com.au/
Also, I've had good service from Spectrum Data as well, if you
need another thumbs up.
Gav
On 04/05/2010, at 8:39 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote:
On 03/05/2010, at 3:39 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
Can any one offer suggestions for recovery of data from a failed
hard drive, I realise that this is a task for professionals!
Severin Crisp
The drive is currently in Denmark/Albany
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I have just been through this exercise, following one disastrous
night just before Easter when my iMac's HD simply stopped
working. Dead in its tracks. I tried the standards: Disk Warrior,
Data Rescue, even good ol' Disk Utility. Nothing worked, and it
was only Disk Utility that would even acknowledge that there was
any sort of device there, although it could not deal with it in
any way.
I found one company which claimed to be able to deal with such a
crisis: Spectrum Data in Bentley. They charged $88 to look at the
drive, but warned that full data recovery could run into
hundreds, and perhaps thousands of dollars if they had to use
their clean room facility.
I was prepared to pay them the $88 to tell me if any sort of data
recovery was possible, and they tracked the problem to failed
components on the drive's PCB. Since everything critically
important was backed up I'm still waiting to hear if they can
source replacements for the faulty components at a reasonable
cost, but I can't justify the cost of full data recovery. I have
lost some recent, non-critical data which is annoying but not
disastrous.
I found them pleasant and easy to deal with. I suggest giving
them a call of recovery of your drive is critically important,
and if the standard Disk Recovery tools don't work.
Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482 Mob 0403 064 948
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