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Data recovery services - Sam3 - 12-27-2008
Anyone here have any recommendations for a data recovery service? I lost my hard drive as I was getting ready to back it up and it has lots of music and photos that I'd like to get back.
I have a Maxtor drive that failed under warranty, and Seagate pointed me to a service (I think they own it) that estimated $1800 to clean-room recover the drive. I've done come Googling and I've seen prices as low as $695 to $1200 and more. These are clean-room places.
Stoopid, stoopid me...
Re: Data recovery services - bazookaman - 12-27-2008
have you tried Data Rescue
Re: Data recovery services - Mr645 - 12-27-2008
If the drive wont spin up, your probably looking at $1000 or more. If it spins up then you may want to try utilities to recover any data. If there is any noise coming from the drive, I would not power it up at all if you want a chance of recovering the data
Re: Data recovery services - hal - 12-27-2008
I just heard that a friend of mine has set up an apple repair shop in berkeley,ca and is making a killing farming out data recovery at student discount pricing.
http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/acs-data-recovery-and-fix-that-mac-of/rfid156746765
call them and see if they can help
http://www.fixthatmac.com/contact.php
Re: Data recovery services - Sam3 - 12-27-2008
The drive emits a clicking sound, I shut it down and took it out of it's case. I was going to try the freeze fix, but I've read that it is not always reliable and can damage the drive further because of condensation. I'll just have to find the money and get the data off it.
I learned that I should look for a place that is approved by Maxtor/Seagate so that I don't void the warranty.
Re: Data recovery services - hal - 12-27-2008
"I learned that I should look for a place that is approved by Maxtor/Seagate so that I don't void the warranty."
who cares about the warranty - the data is far more valuable than the drive.
Re: Data recovery services - Sam3 - 12-28-2008
Why I mentioned the warranty is that if the drive is handled by an approved data recovery service, the warranty will be honored and you will get a replacement drive from the manufacturer. This is in addition to the data that gets recovered by the recovery service.
Hal, thanks for the tip, I'll call your friend Monday. I even have a student ID as work allows me to go back to school.
Re: Data recovery services - space-time - 12-28-2008
Sam3 wrote:
Why I mentioned the warranty is that if the drive is handled by an approved data recovery service, the warranty will be honored and you will get a replacement drive from the manufacturer. This is in addition to the data that gets recovered by the recovery service.
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you are looking at a ~$1000 data recovery bill, and you are concerned with the warranty replacement where you might get a refurbished drive worth maybe $30 at best?
on top of that, do you really want another drive from the same manufacturer?
Re: Data recovery services - Racer X - 12-28-2008
over enough time, you will eventually get a bad drive from every manufacturer.
Re: Data recovery services - space-time - 12-28-2008
Racer X wrote:
over enough time, you will eventually get a bad drive from every manufacturer.
yeah, I agree, technically you are correct. But the gut feeling tells you to avoid that brand since you got burned once. And then you buy another, and another, until you're back where you started. But still I am curious if the OP would buy another drive from the same maker or would rather try another brand.