[Hidden-tech] Retrieve data on external hard drive

[Sarah Meikle]

I have had great success using Data Rescue by Prosoft
<http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php> on
multiple drives that wouldn't boot for me.
Totally worth the money.

It has saved me on many occasions and, at $99 (on sale right now) is far
better value than the huge cost many data retrieval places can charge (up
to $1000).

It has never failed to save the day for me.  Hope it works for her too.

Good luck.  That's rough.

Sarah



Kind regards
Sarah

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On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 5:30 PM, Tom Kopec <tek at acm.org> wrote:

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>
>
>  She needs to STOP POKING AT IT RIGHT NOW.
>
> Rule #1 of drive recovery (assuming it is not making grinding noises) is
> to image whatever you can from the drive off to another medium, so that
> your recovery efforts don't make things worse.
>
> Assuming she is not very tech-savvy and doesn't know how to take an image
> and then work on it, she should pack the drive off to Kiernan or somebody
> so they can make a best effort.
>
> Just MHO.
>
> ...tom
>
> On 10/24/2013 5:56 AM, George Forman wrote:
>
>
>
>  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
>
>
>
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