Lower Cost Data Recovery Services
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From: mcp6453 on 19 Nov 2009 13:29 Can the regulars here recommend a reputable but lower cost hard drive recovery service in the US? Kroll probably does the best work, but their quote for an 80GB drive started at $600. For example, does http://www.datarecoverylabs.com do a reasonable job for $169, if their Google ad is correct? Any other recommendations?
From: Ato_Zee on 19 Nov 2009 14:16 On 19-Nov-2009, mcp6453 <mcp6453(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Kroll probably does the best work, but their > quote for an 80GB drive started at $600. For example, does > http://www.datarecoverylabs.com do a reasonable job for $169, if their > Google ad is correct? Any other recommendations? AFAIR Maximum PC (USA) did a survey and covered the recovery techniques, for drives that had been shot, incinerated, immersed in New Orleans floods, etc. The Gung Ho approach, if the platters are intact, and haven't been above the Curie Point, we'll get something back. Seems they take the platters out in a clean room, and put them in a jig with working heads and electronics. You may, if the file table is unreadable, get back a lot of fragments of files, labeled file01, file02, etc. Without linking information that's not much use. There are also internet resources on how to DIY by swapping the platters into a working housing, using a separator comb to hold the heads off the coating while you put everything into place. Sometimes there is an IC inside the sealed platter enclosure (electrically quieter and nearer the heads) and that fails. If it's dead you have little to lose. Myself I keep backups, Drive Image for the OS drive, FileBack PC in copy just changed/new files mode for the data drive.
From: Arno on 20 Nov 2009 13:34 mcp6453 <mcp6453(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Can the regulars here recommend a reputable but lower cost hard drive > recovery service in the US? Kroll probably does the best work, but their > quote for an 80GB drive started at $600. For example, does > http://www.datarecoverylabs.com do a reasonable job for $169, if their > Google ad is correct? Any other recommendations? This may be a case of you get what you pay for. The cheaper ones in the market will eithe raise their price for more difficult things or just pick those they can recover with low effort and refuse the others. I suspect that for $169 all you get is an automated software only recovery, that cannot do anything about hardware problems. Incidentially, the starting quote does not say a lot. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno(a)wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans
From: Arno on 21 Nov 2009 05:37 Arno <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: > mcp6453 <mcp6453(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Can the regulars here recommend a reputable but lower cost hard drive >> recovery service in the US? Kroll probably does the best work, but their >> quote for an 80GB drive started at $600. For example, does >> http://www.datarecoverylabs.com do a reasonable job for $169, if their >> Google ad is correct? Any other recommendations? > This may be a case of you get what you pay for. The cheaper ones in > the market will eithe raise their price for more difficult things or > just pick those they can recover with low effort and refuse the > others. I suspect that for $169 all you get is an automated software > only recovery, that cannot do anything about hardware problems. > Incidentially, the starting quote does not say a lot. Update: The German computer magazine c't just has a report about somebody trying to get a dropped external disk recoverd (pretty clear cut). The guy first payd 250 EUR, then an additional 800 EUR, and today he still has not gotten any data back. There are definitely black sheep in this market. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno(a)wagner.name GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans
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