Cheap data recovery option??

[brachy33]

Ok, I have an old Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 80GB IDE HD that is giving the notorious Maxtor "polyphonic beeps" as the hard drive spindle is locking up and not moving. Basically, I'm SOL with the thing in terms of getting the data off with software methods and I have some very important files on the HD.

Seagate (who purchased Maxtor) has their data recovery team that says the basic home service will run between $300 - $1000 for 2-3 week delivery of the data on the drive on a DVD or some other data format. This would be fine time-wise, but can anyone offer any other data recovery option that doesn't cost an arm and a leg for getting simple files like jpg and word docs off of the drive??

Please post if you have a favorite data recovery company out there. TY!

Edit: HERE is the forum thread that starts back in 2002 and ends this month regarding Maxtor drives that beeped until they died. Yikes!

 

[creative_mind]

This is a case of physical mecanical failure. Actually hard drive failur is of two types logical failure and physical failure. Logical failure can be solved by using data recovery software. Physical failures can result from a wide variety of causes. There are really two sub-categories for physical hard drive failures; mechanical and electronic. Mechanical failures usually result from a failure of the spindle motor. Spindle motor failure can result from excessive heat due to a bearing failure. The increased heat resulting from the bearing failure will expand the drive shaft and therefore seize the spindle motor. Suddenly, your drive will become inoperative. Occasionally, you will get a warning that something bad is about to happen. You may hear a loud whining, a grinding noise, even high-pitched screeches.
To solve problem in this case, we require data recovery services.
There are many companies which deals in data recovery services and data recovery software, and mine favourite is Stellar Information systems Ltd. Because I have used their software once and was satisfied with the result.
To know more about their data recovery services: http://www.stellarinfo.com/data_recovery_services.htm

 

[Dennischen]

Hi,

I was on a business conference in Singapore when my laptop harddisk crashed (clicking and scratching sound) on me! Obviously I panicked as I was in a foreign country and did not have any company IT support! I needed to reply my e-mails to my customers/boss very badly!

I found this data recovery company Data Savers on the search engine using my friend's laptop which had good compliments from their clients. I decided to give them a shot!
What can I say, friendly service, good followup and of course, within 2 days, I got my all
my outlook personal folders and important contacts/documents back. I think from what
I have read from their website, they seem to be the most cost effective (cheap) data recovery centre in Singapore and Asia Pacific? I was expecting to pay from my own pocket SGD$2000 but was half that price instead!!

Since I got a great experience from their service, I am going to recommend their services here to anyone who reads this thread. If you happen to be in Singapore/Asia Pacific and really need to recover data from crash harddisk, their contact is below:

website name is www.data-savers.net
Submit request at www.data-savers.net/request.php
Client testimonials: www.data-savers.net/client.php
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And Lionel if you can see this, this one is for your good service in Singapore!

 

[unhappy_mage]

Glad to hear it went well. For US folks, SGD are worth about $1.57, so $2000 SGD is around $1271 USD. Half that is ~$600.

Remember to back up your data in the future; it's cheaper than getting it back or nobody would back up