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Data Recovery Companies?

SoulkeepHL

SoulkeepHL

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I know I can google and come up with 6 dozen companies, but has anyone ever dealt the any company that they can recommend? I know that they're all pretty supid expensive, but I have a neighbor that had a hard drive die and wants to know his options in terms of companies.
 
he has exhausted the self help options?
they are horribly expensive
first theyd run software recovery just like he could do
and failing that swap out circuit boards and or crack the drive in a lab

what are the symptoms?
what drive?

at the lab level, most people just give up rather than pony up the $$$
at the software level, they basically get took for twice the money the software to do it themselves costs
 
Ice Czar said:
he has exhausted the self help options?
they are horribly expensive
first theyd run software recovery just like he could do
and failing that swap out circuit boards and or crack the drive in a lab

what are the symptoms?
what drive?

at the lab level, most people just give up rather than pony up the $$$
at the software level, they basically get took for twice the money the software to do it themselves costs
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The drive is toast as far as I can tell, its an old (5 years) 20gb maxtor with 16some gb of data on it. The drive is still detected by the bios, and its not making horrible sounds like a head crash, but I can't even pull the drive up when it's attached to another machine (a service has failed to start or something to that effect under win2k, and trying to do a dir under recovery console fails to do anything).
 
I just had 4 IDE drives die on me in the past 2 months. 2 of them died the day before yesterday, a 30gig WD and a 60gig IBM.
The IBM is making a wierd high pitched oscillating sound. The WD doesn't make any sound but the MB says that the drive has failed.
 
didnt your mother ever tell you not to play football in the house? :p

that is an anomalous cluster
(unless you have enough HDDs to brownout the local grid)
and its extremely unlikely there isnt a single root cause
like an impact when they where accessing (head slap)
or a power event
less likely is environmental, the odds of all the drives failing at the same time from environmental causes is pretty low

of course, I see all the rigs in your sig
where they all in the same computer?
 
Ice Czar said:
didnt your mother ever tell you not to play football in the house? :p

that is an anomalous cluster
(unless you have enough HDDs to brownout the local grid)
and its extremely unlikely there isnt a single root cause
like an impact when they where accessing (head slap)
or a power event
less likely is environmental, the odds of all the drives failing at the same time from environmental causes is pretty low

of course, I see all the rigs in your sig
where they all in the same computer?
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No, 2 were in one machine and 2 were in another.
The 2 that died the other day were in the P3 450 machine that had 7 hard drives in it.
the other 5 drives are SCSI units. I've noticed that SCSI drives seem to last a lot longer than IDE drives.
 
Naw, the drives were from different vendors purchased at different times.
One of the drives was probably 3 years old while the other was about 2.
 
We've used OnTrack for 3 drives that we couldn't get data off of anymore.

You will pay very dearly for it though.
 
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