Looking for a "data recovery" store!

[silentak]

One of my harddrive crashed and would not boot up.

Tried diff. systems, etc.... "harddrive failure" is what the BIOS reads. Doesn't even work as secondary either.

I need to find a data recovery center or store....please help me 🙁

It's a MAXTOR 541DX 5400rpm 20gb ATA100

Thanks in advance!
Alex

 

[Gage8]

you might have already done this but did you have the jumper set to slave or cable select and if you did are you sure it was correct? I don't know any data recovery people but I do know that it is pretty expensive.

 

[silentak]

Yup, tried all different sorts of combinations with jumpers and systems. All failed...

The drive has critical work data so I'm willing to pay the price as long as it isn't absurd (like over $100)

 

[jarsoffart]

Try Ontrack EasyRecovery DataRecovery software. It worked for me when my drive booted and said "No Operating System." I put it in as a slave on a working system, installed the software, ran it, and recovered practically all of my data. Ontrack also offers lab recovery. You can also try DriveSavers.com, supposedly some famous celebrities like Sean Connery used it

 

[silentak]

Originally posted by: jarsoffart
Try Ontrack EasyRecovery DataRecovery software. It worked for me when my drive booted and said "No Operating System." I put it in as a slave on a working system, installed the software, ran it, and recovered practically all of my data. Ontrack also offers lab recovery. You can also try DriveSavers.com, supposedly some famous celebrities like Sean Connery used it

I will try ontrack and drivesavers.com EasyRecovery won't work because the drive doesn't even read after the bios.

It is detected in the bios, but unreadable.

Thanks a grip for the help,
Alex