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GAH! $1400 for data recovery...

Homerboy

Homerboy

Lifer
The engineers have completed the evaluation process for your IBM DPTA-372050 s/n JMHT8059 data recovery. We are now ready to start the actual data recovery pending approval by you.

If the recovery is not successful there will be NO-CHARGE to you.

The cost for this data recovery is: $1,400.00 USD
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Sigh... damn you IBM... damn you to hell.
 
Ahhh... I guess backing up your drive doesn't seem like such a waste of time now, does it?

Everyone (myself included) learns this lesson once.
 
most data isn't really that valuable/unique

if it is, it is usually copied to another place/device BEFORE failure
 
the "funny" thing is that I had this data backed up nightly.
Then I did some switch around on my LAN, moving HDs and such and never setup the backup process again (partial procrastination and forget fullness.... why is it you think of things like this at 2am driving home or some other inopportune time?)

Regardless, drive failed about a month aafter I moved all the HDS around and didnt have any backups left.

The data in question is about 4yrs of work on some websites, graphics etc etc. No... its not worth $1400, and Im not going to be paying that (unless theres a millionaire on the boards that has a golden heart?).

$1400 to replace a head though... I gotta switch jobs.
 
Originally posted by: Homerboy
the "funny" thing is that I had this data backed up nightly.
Then I did some switch around on my LAN, moving HDs and such and never setup the backup process again (partial procrastination and forget fullness.... why is it you think of things like this at 2am driving home or some other inopportune time?)

Regardless, drive failed about a month aafter I moved all the HDS around and didnt have any backups left.

The data in question is about 4yrs of work on some websites, graphics etc etc. No... its not worth $1400, and Im not going to be paying that (unless theres a millionaire on the boards that has a golden heart?).

$1400 to replace a head though... I gotta switch jobs.
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Which company did the evaluation?
 
yeap thanks for the suggestion!
I already submitted for a quote to a pile of other places. Ill try these guys too...

keep me coming if anyone has anymore
 
http://www.essdatarecovery.com/

They recovered data from 2 drives of clients of mine. $70 analysis fee, don't pay if they don't get the data, price is determined by complexity of job (not amount of data). Each job was around $600 for recovery. One drive had trashed partition tables, another had a chip on the controller that burst into flames! They did a great job, except the first set of cds for one drive they sent me were corrupted. They sent me a second set overnight though, which more than made up for it. Highly recommended.
 
meh....
2 more quotes have come back with $1400 being right on the money. Seems to be the going rate for a head replacement.
 
Originally posted by: werk
http://www.essdatarecovery.com/

They recovered data from 2 drives of clients of mine. $70 analysis fee, don't pay if they don't get the data, price is determined by complexity of job (not amount of data). Each job was around $600 for recovery. One drive had trashed partition tables, another had a chip on the controller that burst into flames! They did a great job, except the first set of cds for one drive they sent me were corrupted. They sent me a second set overnight though, which more than made up for it. Highly recommended.
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Holy cow dude, I would have taken care of that for $300. 😉
 
Trashed partition tables? No way that's $600 to fix. Boot a linux rescue CD and run gPart. If it doesn't find all of your partitions the first time through (which takes less than a minute), run it again in exhaustive block scan mode, verbose, with logging enabled - overnight, because this takes a while. I've had to use the fast mode several times, and the exhaustive only once, but every time it got all of my partitions back in order. It recognizes FAT/FAT32, NTFS, EXT2/3, ReiserFS, XFS, and a variety of other filesystem types.
 
Originally posted by: DerMonkeyhauser
Trashed partition tables? No way that's $600 to fix. Boot a linux rescue CD and run gPart. If it doesn't find all of your partitions the first time through (which takes less than a minute), run it again in exhaustive block scan mode, verbose, with logging enabled - overnight, because this takes a while. I've had to use the fast mode several times, and the exhaustive only once, but every time it got all of my partitions back in order. It recognizes FAT/FAT32, NTFS, EXT2/3, ReiserFS, XFS, and a variety of other filesystem types.
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I must mention that the client tried to "fix" the partition tables themselves. I took a look at it with several recovery tools, but I didn't have the time to spend trying to figure out what they did to it. What we would have charged these people for me to figure out what they did and recover the data would have been much, much more than the $600 pricetag of the recovery place. They happily paid that $600 plus our rate for the time I spent diagnosing the problem and dealing with the recovery place. I happily billed them for that time and worked on other client issues in the time I saved, making us more money in the long run...

Even if it had been a personal drive, I probably wouldn't have wasted the time looking at it myself. I'd gladly plunk down another $100 or so for a new drive or create new partitions and format and restore from backups...
 
That's actually quite cheap, I've seen it as high as $20 grand. I guess now you know why people say over and over and over and over and over to make sure you back up your critical data and have an offsite copy made if it's really important.
 
Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
That's actually quite cheap, I've seen it as high as $20 grand. I guess now you know why people say over and over and over and over and over to make sure you back up your critical data and have an offsite copy made if it's really important.
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I would have to agree, it is on the low side...

We usually pay around $5000. They don't even guarantee you that you get your data back. You might get some windows system files and cache from IE..
 
Ouch, even if you manage to only spend $600 it's still a chunk of change.
When all is said and done might I recommend doing what I do.

I got two 160gb sata drives and put them in a raid configuration. Cost me about $260 last year and is probably cheaper these days. I was running two 60gb pata's before this.

The other thing I got was a newegg refurb 160gb pata hdd and a usb2 external drive case. Cost me less than $130 for both the case and drive.

Anyways hope you get the data back without it costing an arm and leg.
 
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