I've read in an article in PC Magazine about how a PC Labs tech did an
experiment
involving putting a HD unit into a fireplace (talk about roasted data ;) the
Seagate
HD was toast on the exterior. Its IDE interface board was completely melted
away and its
PATA port was melted with a few pins missing which poped off during expansion
from the heat.
The drive was a huge black charcoal briquet so they sent the unit to Ontrack
Data Recover Services
in which they found that eventhough the exterior had a huge amount of fire and
heat damage inside
on the platers they found a thin film of sute and ash and recovered nearly 75%
of the data.
What Ontrack does is disasemble the old HD internals depending on the degree of
damage (platters, head, megneto or voice coils, bearings) and rebuild it into
either an external pata or usb HD unit. Quickly access the damage to data,
recovery fesibility state and quickly recover the data to either CD or DVD as
requested by the user.
Its a very expensive data recovery service. For $100.00 they'll do a recovery
assessment on the HD that you send to Ontrack and when you receive the unit
back for review they send you either the original or newly built HD depending
on the degree of damage along with a CD or DVD which just list a report with
the total possible recovered contents on the HD for your review.
If you decide to go for full attempted recovery and want your data back it will
cost you anywhere between $500 to $1000 and up depending on how fesible the
data is to be recovered. The most important point to remmember here is that not
all the data can be %75 to %100 recoverable which depends very much on how
badly the platers are damaged.
PC Magazines conclussion whould be very obvious here to ste in my own words "If
you realy want to reclaim that lost theisis that you've been working on for a
few or many months and are in real dire need to have your HD data recovered
Ontrack Data recovery services are well worth the $500 you paid for becuase
after all everyone's hard
to find and worked on data is just that precious and very valuable to people."
Its worth the full price to get it back.
Marc Sims
Data Technician I
Prince George's Community College
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, January 11, 2006 >>>
On 11 Jan 2006 at 17:18, Hugh Gundersen wrote:
> Does anyone know where Windows XP might have put these deleted files.
They are not put anywhere. Still in the same place on your hard
drive. There are several utilities that can recover these files.
Ontrack Easy Recovery comes to mind.
Rich
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