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Hard Drive Died, Need The Pros!

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Qutlass

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Hello,
A friend of mine ran into a bit of a problem earlier today when the building his computers are in expreienced a powersurge. His Comps weren't protected properly, so most of the systems are fried. All the harddrives power-up, except for one.

So this one drive needs some professional help, so i would like for you to recommend if you can a data recovery company that will be able to help us out.

Its a 40gig Maxtor harddrive that won't power on, and we need to recover the files on it.

Thanks!
Q!
 
well there are companies out there that do that... though youll pay out the ass for them like thousands of dollars if not more... best bet, find a drive with at a controler board that matches the maxtor drive take out the 4 screws and replace teh board, power it up copy the data off, replace the board, get a new hd... and a few surge strips....a new board may or may not fix the issue... long story short your pretty sol
 
DriveSavers

When I found the need for a recovery service, I received quotes from 5 different places. The reputable places all have a variable fee, depending on the drive size, and the problem or damage level. The quotes were in a similar range, from $500 to $3500, only to be set once they have the drive and can diagnose it. Most of them had a diagnostic fee that became part of the cost in the recovery, if you didn't do the recovery, you paid the diagnostic fee.

If you look around be sure to find someone who has a clean room and is manufacturer warranty authorized.

My own personal drive recovery cost $1700. I've since referred 5 customers to Drivesavers, all with positive results. Their costs have all been between $1300 and $2200, so it is not cheap by any means.

I hope this helps.
 
There are a few services like mentioned above who will gladly perform the service for you for a large sum of cash. Unfortunately its the only way to go with this sort of problem 🙁

You might want to suggest to your friend that he backs up his crucial data on a more stable form of storage. I had an overclocking disaster that corrupted a 300GB drive just before christmas. I had made a backup the month before so had everything safe. Luckily i managed to use a recovery tool to get almost everything back from the HD.

Ive set up a batch file to run once a week now which copies the important folder from the hard drives across the network to another computer. Aswell as this i still do my DVD/CD backups every couple of months. It really is worth doing something like this as i know how horrible it feels to lose a lot of data.
 
Success!!

I followed "jwhitt's" idea about swapping the controller card, before shelling out all that cash. I found an identical drive and i'm holding the dead dive in my hand as the infomatiom is being copied (IDE-USB converter with stactic wrist band. :0).


Thanks All!

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