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anyone here work in data recovery....

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BIOS doesn't find the drive.
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If the bios does not recognize it, give it up. linux/knoppix/whatever/ OS cannot proceed if the hardware is not talking.

I hope you can justify the cost of a recovery service, because that is really the only option🙁
 
Companies like Kroll specialize in physical data recovery. They have clean rooms specifically for the job. Unfortunately they generally take 150 just to analyze the drive and see if it can be recovered. If it can, it's at least another 1000 to recover it to another drive....it's expensive as hell. I know, I expensed it on my company's account.
 
Originally posted by: Inappropriate4AT
Is your porn really that important?
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not that i need to state the obvious, but 1. i'm female, 2. most females, myself included, dislike porn, and 3. porn isn't 2-3MB (max 20MB)
 
Originally posted by: Connoisseur
Companies like Kroll specialize in physical data recovery. They have clean rooms specifically for the job. Unfortunately they generally take 150 just to analyze the drive and see if it can be recovered. If it can, it's at least another 1000 to recover it to another drive....it's expensive as hell. I know, I expensed it on my company's account.
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you're lucky. if i could burn my company's money on this, i'd be a very happy camper. right now, i'm just trying to get out of using a poweredge 1400SC server as my workstation (i'm trying to get a decent optiplex) 😛
 
Quote I got was $1800 to recover an 80gb drive. The place I sent it had free estimate and no charge if they couldn't recover the data.
 
Originally posted by: tami
Originally posted by: Connoisseur
Companies like Kroll specialize in physical data recovery. They have clean rooms specifically for the job. Unfortunately they generally take 150 just to analyze the drive and see if it can be recovered. If it can, it's at least another 1000 to recover it to another drive....it's expensive as hell. I know, I expensed it on my company's account.
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you're lucky. if i could burn my company's money on this, i'd be a very happy camper. right now, i'm just trying to get out of using a poweredge 1400SC server as my workstation (i'm trying to get a decent optiplex) 😛
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It wasn't for me. It was for a client. I work in forensic data recovery (software-assuming drives actually work). Unfortunately, our company doesn't do physical data recovery. So we had to hand it off to Kroll.
 
gah... all these shipping fees are going to suck if i do price estimates at various places.

does kroll give you guys a discount since you deal with them (regularly, i assume)?
 
Originally posted by: tami
gah... all these shipping fees are going to suck if i do price estimates at various places.

does kroll give you guys a discount since you deal with them (regularly, i assume)?
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Heh no discount. Technically we're competitors. But we have a much much better forensic data recovery group than they do. Of course, they have physical data recovery services which we don't. We also have a financial litigation and corporate finance divisions, which i'm not sure they have.
 
If your HDD experienced a head crash..

the noises that you'd be hearing when it was powered up.. would cause you to unplug it immediately. 😉 lol
 
Originally posted by: tami
so i have this laptop harddrive that crashed on me awhile ago. i ran chkdsk and the computer took 36 hours to complete it. my bet is that i experienced a serious head crash, and at the present, there's no way to get the data off using the hard drive as-is.

so my question is: anyone work in those kind of data recovery centers where you literally take the hard drives apart platter by platter to recover the data? i'd like to get some data off of this drive if at all possible, but i know that the pricing for this kind of service is rather high. regardless, i'm still exploring my options.

or if not, anyone have any better suggestions for me? i've already tried to put it in another machine, already tried to hook it up via a USB kit. however, the drive is seriously dead and i think that taking it apart is the only viable option for me at this point.
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my old HD experienced a similar crash as well. refused to fork over $1000+ to get the data back. Ive learned to live with it
 
Originally posted by: bmacd
if you expose the platters to dust, you will destroy any data (according to a company that repairs drives).

-=bmacd=-
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Dust is not that devastating to a drive. You can run a harddrive in open air for weeks with no ill effects. I know because i tried it with an old WD drive.
 
If the BIOS won't recognize it, software recovery (obviously) won't work.

If you ran CHKDSK on the drive, the data you had there is likely gone anyway.
 
i got it recognized in the bios of my linux machine, but it couldn't do much because when i mounted the drive, it kept giving me errors and telling me that the "volume is dirty" 🙁
 
thanks crucial for getting back to me in this thread. $1300 is not bad. i still haven't sent my drive in yet. i am still building up the courage to part with it.

so how exactly does the recovery work? do they send you a new drive with all the recovered data and the broken drive as well? or do they trash it and send you DVD-Rs of the recovered data? i never understood how the whole thing works.

 
Originally posted by: tami
i've used ontrak. i've used getdataback. i've used other programs and everything that used to work on me when i've had other similar issues. trust me, the disk is bad (iirc, it makes clicking noises too). you can't even boot into windows anymore or anywhere else for that matter. BIOS doesn't find the drive.

but i do want to get some data off of the harddrive, and i know that this kind of issue might find an ATOT lurker who may have experience in this field. i surely hope so. 😱
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Ontrack is the company I know of where you can send them your drive and they can try to get stuff off it. I also use Getdataback at work all the time and have very good success with it as long as the drive physically spins up and works. But if it doesn't even do that, then I have no idea. Sorry man.
 
getdataback is a great program. it has saved plenty of data for me. but yeah, the drive spins up -- it just can't be read. i really only see the option now of taking it apart 🙁
 
Originally posted by: tami
thanks crucial for getting back to me in this thread. $1300 is not bad. i still haven't sent my drive in yet. i am still building up the courage to part with it.

so how exactly does the recovery work? do they send you a new drive with all the recovered data and the broken drive as well? or do they trash it and send you DVD-Rs of the recovered data? i never understood how the whole thing works.
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ess gives you a few choices.

Thank you for choosing ESS. Through our evaluation of your hard drive, we have determined that a full recovery of your files is probable. The loss of your data has been caused by electronics failure, and by looking at past cases which were similar to yours, we estimate there is a 85 % chance of a complete recovery. While we make every effort to save our clients? data in every instance, it is always possible that the data may not be recoverable.

We estimate the cost for completion to be $1250.. If we are unable to recover the necessary data, there will be no charge, as outlined in the terms below. Turnaround time is estimated to be 3-7 business days from when we get your approval. In order to proceed, please review the data recovery terms below, and reply to this message with the phrase ?I agree? in the subject line. This will acknowledge your agreement with the below terms and our engineers will begin work on your case right away. In addition, please provide as much information about important files as you can, such as file names, extensions, or folders, so that upon completion we can check the recovered files to make sure that the recovery was successful. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to call us at the number listed below. Thank you.

Media Rates:
Secure FTP: Standard Service - $100 for up to 1GB of data, Priority Service - Free for up to 1GB of data
DVD: 1-5 DVD?s $50, 6-10 DVD?s $100
CD: 1-5 CD?s $50, 6-10 CD?s $100

USB 2.0 Maxtor OneTouch External Hard Drive:
100GB USB ONLY $129.99
200GB USB/FIREWIRE $219.99
250GB USB/FIREWIRE $249.99
300GB USB/FIREWIRE $269.99
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I'd grab an identical drive and start swapping stuff out.
It doesn't scare me a bit.
I've seen a number of hdd mods that are extremely invasive and they work fine. The dust issue is massively overstated as is anything that is aura-protected.
Doing is learning.
If you're too afraid to practice on that hdd (which is pretty smart), buy a couple old 6gb seagates and swap the platters out. Practice makes perfect. 🙂
 
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