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Data recovery companies
Any body have any local recommendations?
I have a 1TB Simpletech Pro Drive that failed on me today.
I'd like to try to get the data back before I submit a RMA request for a replacement drive under warranty.
I have a 1TB Simpletech Pro Drive that failed on me today.
I'd like to try to get the data back before I submit a RMA request for a replacement drive under warranty.
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Let me give you a few pointers.
1)ALL data companies will charge betwene $500 and $1000 just to LOOK at the drive. That is not recovery just to look it over and say "yep we can get the data off"
2)Costs run between $5-$500 a meg of recovered data, depending on if its RAID, if there is fire damage, etc...
Last time I had a data recover was at work, we had 130megs recovered (files not backed up) at the cost of $8500. So you need to decide if the data is THAT important.
Next time I would suggest you put up a server or some kind of redundant backup system. I personally here at home run a windows 2003 server with raid 5+1 hotswap, dual backed up to a raid 0(mirrored) external dual USB drive. This way I can loose a total of 2 drives on the raid AND one on the backup raid and still have my data safe. Then again I do have over 3t of data here at home.
1)ALL data companies will charge betwene $500 and $1000 just to LOOK at the drive. That is not recovery just to look it over and say "yep we can get the data off"
2)Costs run between $5-$500 a meg of recovered data, depending on if its RAID, if there is fire damage, etc...
Last time I had a data recover was at work, we had 130megs recovered (files not backed up) at the cost of $8500. So you need to decide if the data is THAT important.
Next time I would suggest you put up a server or some kind of redundant backup system. I personally here at home run a windows 2003 server with raid 5+1 hotswap, dual backed up to a raid 0(mirrored) external dual USB drive. This way I can loose a total of 2 drives on the raid AND one on the backup raid and still have my data safe. Then again I do have over 3t of data here at home.
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I've actually done some data recovery before, my friend's harddrive crashed, I was able to use software to analyze the hardrive and managed to recovery a good sum of her data. It's not really that difficult.
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hopefully works for you too
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+1000000 for DriveSavers. Best company for data recovery, period, imo. Be aware that normally the people using this type of service have critical business documents/records/etc, or are government organizations, not personal home HDD's, and therefore the services do not come cheap.
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does the drive spin but click? you may be able to put it in the freezer and get it working.. .
If it doesnt spin, tap the drive. If its not getting power, you need to decide whether or not its worth $2000, since that is likely the neighborhood you'll spend on a simple drive failyure.
If it doesnt spin, tap the drive. If its not getting power, you need to decide whether or not its worth $2000, since that is likely the neighborhood you'll spend on a simple drive failyure.
If you havent already scanned the drive for file system errors, give it a shot before you plotz down $$$ or $$$$ on recovery.
I've not tried the freezer thing, but a couple corner taps on a desk got a server drive unstuck long enough for me to run a drive cloning.
I've not tried the freezer thing, but a couple corner taps on a desk got a server drive unstuck long enough for me to run a drive cloning.
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does the drive spin but click? you may be able to put it in the freezer and get it working.. .
If it doesnt spin, tap the drive. If its not getting power, you need to decide whether or not its worth $2000, since that is likely the neighborhood you'll spend on a simple drive failyure.
If it doesnt spin, tap the drive. If its not getting power, you need to decide whether or not its worth $2000, since that is likely the neighborhood you'll spend on a simple drive failyure.
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You can boot into knoppix, it seems to recognize anything. Then mount the disk, copy everything off and dismount.