Hard Drive failed, need to pay someone to extract data.

[THELAIR]

Ugh, my backup policy was to copy "important" files to a older 3 gig fijitsu hard drive from our main hard drive.

well that 3 gigger just died... makes a very very loud spinning noise.

the data on it is quite important and i need to get it extracted. Anyone know of some companies that can do that?

I'd like to mail it off and see what can be done.

 

[randypj]

You mention spinning noise. If it will spinup/access, you might be able to find out what Lost and Found can recover. You can download from www.powerquest.com. The downloaded version will tell you what can be recovered.

If it does make a noise, you might try taking it out of the case, putting it on a long ribbon/power cable, and holding it at different angles, etc. to see if you can make it access. I'm not kidding. A buddy and I spent 8 hours doing this to access data off a trashed hard drive. As I recall, it made a noise, but would only access when held a certain way.

I believe data recovery costs beaucoup bucks.
--Randy

 

[Rendus]

There are several.

www.ontrack.com and www.drivesavers.com are the two that are most commonly used, and often don't void the warranty of the drive manufacturer.

 

[CAMS]

Your idea is sound except that is not what you did. You are supposed to have important data on both drives, it is unlikely both will fail at the same time, burning to CD is even better.

In other words you are screwed, put it down to a learning experience.

 

[Sunner]

If the HD is physically broken(which seems like it may evry well be the case) then its gonna cost you a slight fortune to have the data restored.

A guy at work had this happen to his laptop once, and it cost a bit over 10.000 SKR, which is ~1000$ to have it recovered.

 

[THELAIR]

a thousand bucks is no biggie...

It failed on a startup, making a loud knocking noise. It DID boot into windows but at the speed of like 1,000 rpm...

the 2nd time i booted up, the bios on the mobo was smart enough to know somthing was "bad", the S.M.A.R.T. technology kicked in and said "better back up soon!" hah

yes burning to CD would be the best bet. But i was just being lazy and didnt want to spend cash on the cd-r.

ill try later this afternoon to see if it can boot up just a lil... or at least let the other hard drive access the bad one and transfer as much data as possible.

I'll try placing the drive in different "directions" heh

 

[IceBlue]

<< a thousand bucks is no biggie... >>



then in the same breath



<< didnt want to spend cash on the cd-r. >>



just thinking aloud here, but couldn't $1000 buy a 12x or 16x CDRW drive and a LIFETIME worth of media?


[/sarcasm] But, I'm not one of those types that likes to reason.
I love to fly by the seat of my pants, ESPECIALLY when it comes to my valuable data. [/sarcasm]

 

[roc919]

ditto to Iceblue

 

[CAMS]

<<But i was just being lazy>>

No kidding, try windows exployer, right click on folder/copy/paste to the other hard drive. Took 5 seconds.

 

[SecretAgentMan]

Here's a few I grabbed off of Maxtor's support site.

Reynolds Data Recovery
Phone: 1-800-223-7483 or 1-303-776-7110
Fax: 1-303-776-7277
http://www.data-recovery.com

DriveSavers
Phone: 1-800-440-1904 or 1-415-382-2000
Fax: 1-415-883-0780
http://www.drivesavers.com

Micro Com LLC Worldwide Data Recovery
Phone: 1-800-469-2549 or 1-818-718-1200
Fax: 1-818-718-14850
http://www.data-master.com

CBL Data Recovery Technologies Inc.
Phone: 1-800-551-3917 or 1-905-479-9938
Fax: 1-905-479-1515
http://www.cbltech.com

EcoDataRecovery
Phone: 1-561-691-0019
Fax: 1-561-691-0014
Toll Free: 1-800-339-3412
http://www.eco-datarecov.com

Ontrack Data Recovery
Phone: 1-800-872-2599 or 1-612-937-5161
Fax: 1-612-937-5815
http://www.ontrack.com

Memofix Hitech Services
Phone: 1-800-MEMOFIX (636-6349)
or 1-905-660-4936
Fax: 1-905-660-4951
http://www.memofix.com

ActionFront Data Recovery Labs Inc.
Phone: 1-800-563-1167 or 1-877-DATAREC (328-2732) or 416-510-6990
Fax: 1-800-563-6979 or 1-416-510-6992
http://www.actionfront.com

 

[jamarno]

If the data is that important, send it to Ontrack. They are good.

A lot of local companies that call themselves data recovery specialists are nothing but two guys with a copy of Norton.

 

[LordSandMan]

I've heard good things about Ontrack and Drivesavers.