[Hidden-tech] Retrieve data on external hard drive

[Rikk Desgres]

George,

$700 sounds like a bargain. It takes a lot of specialized work to recover
discs. Sometimes taking apart the drive itself.

BUT, first I would second Greg¹s suggestion of Spinrite. If you have tried
other things, but not Spinrite give that a shot. You have to run a bootable
downloaded DOS image, and the graphic interface looks very dated but looks
is not what this software is about. It¹s bit level recovery no matter what
OS is on the drive. Oh and it HAS to be run on a PC. I forget the cost, but
it¹s a good investment. If that can¹t fix it send it off for $700. I know
people that paid MUCH more than that for data recovery.

Rikk


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Rikk Desgres
Pinehurst Pictures & Sound
http://www.pinehurstpictures.com


On 10/24/13 5:56 AM, "George Forman" <GEForman at aol.com> wrote:

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> Dear Hidden Tech Community,
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> A colleague of mine who works in Honolulu cannot open a back up drive that
> contains 3 years of work.  She is absolutely undone by this lost.  The drive
> contain 3,000 video clips of a demonstration preschool that presents an
> innovative approach to early childhood education.  The drive will boot then
> crash.  The standard attempts to repair the directory have not worked.  She
> was told by a company in Honolulu that it would cost $700 to retrieve the
> data.  Doesn't that sound like way too much money?  Does anyone know of a
> reliable service that can retrieve the data for less?  She has a Western
> Digital, 2 terabyte drive that is about 75% full.  I would then call your
> recommended service to learn what is involved in retrieving data (dust free
> room, manual retrieval versus batching it, etc.) and communicate this
> information back to my colleague.
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> Thanks,
> George Forman, President
> Videatives, Inc.
> Amherst, Massachusetts
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