I highly recommend Kiernan for data recovery -- very affordable and fair. He was able to recover a large iTunes library for me. On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Kiernan Gulick-Sherrill < greenearthcomputer at gmail.com> wrote: > ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > > George, > > If she wanted to mail us the drive we are always happy to take a look. If > we are completely unable to get files the attempt only costs $44. If we > are able to get files you are usually looking at under $100. We make use > of tools like Spinrite and others to recover files off failed drives, but > we also have a few other tricks up our sleeves. > > If the drive does need to go out for clean-room recovery the company we > usually send out drives to does 100% free estimates including a shipping > label (us only) Their estimates are generally $400-800 depending on how > bad the drive is. But very reasonable compared to a lot of mail out > clean-room recovery. > > Thanks, > > Kiernan Gulick-Sherrill > Green Earth Computers > www.greenearthpc.us > kiernan at greenearthpc.us > 413-282-TECH > Follow Me: [image: Facebook] <http://www.facebook.com/greenearthpc> [image: > LinkedIn] <http://www.linkedin.com/in/kiernangs> [image: Twitter]<http://www.twitter.com/greenearthpc> > > Member: Business Networking International (BNI) > Mill River Chapter: visit http://millriverbni.com > > PPlease consider the environment before printing this e-mail > > > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:56 AM, George Forman <GEForman at aol.com> wrote: > >> ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's >> area. >> ** If you did, we all thank you. >> >> >> >> Dear Hidden Tech Community, >> >> 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. >> >> Thanks, >> George Forman, President >> Videatives, Inc. >> Amherst, Massachusetts >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net >> Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net >> >> You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. >> If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members >> page on the Hidden Tech Web site. >> http://www.hidden-tech.net/members >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members > -- Jes Appleby jesappleby at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20131024/fd10965e/attachment.html