[Hidden-tech] Local Data Recovery Services?

[ussailis at shaysnet.com]

I've been sucessful twice this way:

It depends on how the drive quit. Often the bearing goes, or the motor
quits. Then it is gonzo!

But I have had a file in the OS quit twice. I also have an IBM notebook
with a hard drive "bay" that plugs in place of the CD drive. On one case I
found the bad file with the drive in that bay, using another IBM laptop. I
renamed the file to a junk name, and added a new copy of the file into the
OS.

Why did I rename the file rather than just deleting it? Because that file
could have failed from a bad spot in the sector (hard drive material is
akin to audio tape material). Changing its name left the file there
occuping the space. The new copy of the file was placed elsewhere. If I
erased the file the OS might have placed the file in the same spot.

The sceond time the filke that looks for the ethernet port failed. I turned
off the ethernet port as I don't use it.

Then once a hard drive made a horrid grinding sound and it stopped.
Oh,well. I bought a new one.


Jim U.
jim at nationalwireless.com


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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:11:59 +0000
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Subject: [Hidden-tech] Local Data Recovery Services?


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Any updates on availability of local data recovery services?  The message
copied below was from 2005.

I ask because my MacBook 2.5 SATA 80g drive died last night.  Yes, I know
better than to not do regular backups, I just didn't do them!  Some lesson.

On the plus side, drive died last night, so I drive to Holyoke Apple Store,
they explained (and showed me) how to replace it with one from Best Buy so
I'd have longer than 90 day warranty (original out of warranty, of
course:-), did that and installing OS this morning...

I'd love to have anything back (other than my year old last backup, sigh). 
Thoughts?

Take care,
Alisa


[Hidden-tech] computer repair/info recovery
seldredge at nowplastics.com seldredge at nowplastics.com
Thu May 5 10:19:06 EDT 2005

Last year we tried to recover data from a scotched hard drive - I looked 
hard, but couldn't find anyone in the area who provides this service 
anymore because the proper facilities (i.e. "clean rooms") are expensive 
to maintain.  Most data recovery companies I researched charge $150 or 
more just to try to recover your data, and from $600 up to actually recover
the data.

We tried two different companies:

Data Recovery Group:  http://www.datarecoverygroup.com/

Total Recall:  http://www.recallusa.com/

Both have an excellent track record, and a long, distinguished client 
list.  Neither were able to recover the data from the drive (it had been 
damaged pretty badly).  Our final expenses were about $300 in fees + 
another $50 or so in shipping expenses.

Good luck!

Stephen Eldredge





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I wonder if anyone can recommend a company that can do some data recovery 
for me as well as fix my laptop. I have an older laptop and it recently 
stopped working, won't even turn on anymore. I see a lot of ads in the 
yellow pages but its hard to know who to trust. 
Thanks in advance 
Lisa :)
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