Re: Data restore services - worth it ?

["Andy Davies" <dajdavies@xxxxxxxxx>]

I guess the ultimate question is how much are those picture's worth to
you =
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I certainly consider paying that much to get pictures of my kids back.

Came across these people who may be able to help - it appears you might
hav=
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a common problem...

http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/data-recovery-lacie-big-external-disk.htm

Andy


On 28/07/06, noughtomate <balraj_jassal@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> My 500GB external Lacie d2 drive has died on me (triple interface
> connectivity)
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> I had a back up of the data which is also corrupt, so restoring is
> not an option to me.
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> Basically, the drive refuses to power up. I'm still within my
> Warranty period and have received a replacement external power
> supply, but this has had no effect. This leads me to beleive there's
> a fault with the actual enclosure.
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> To me this implies that there's a fault with the disks or the
> controller within the enclosure.
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> I have 3 options to restore my data :
> a) Physically open the enclosure myself (which invalidates the
> warranty) and manually try to mount the disks in a seperate
> enclosure myself
> b) Use Lacie's approved professinal data restoration companies.
> I've had quotes ranging between =A3495 to =A3995!
> c) Seek a non Lacie approved professional restoration company,
> which is cheaper (which invalidates the warranty)
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> I wouldn't mind opening the disk enclosure up myself, however I
> think the 500GB logical drive is made up of 2 x 250GB physical
> drives, so the data is likely to be striped across both. This would
> mean that restoring the data myself would not be straight forward.
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> I had thought about buying a cheaper version of the Enclosure and
> moving the disks from the faulty one to the new one, but according
> to the restoration company, there are firmware issues that I need to
> take into account. I'm not sure if they're feeding me BS.
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> I own another 500GB Lacie disk which I bought more recently, but
> it's enclosure size is smaller which leads me to beleive it contains
> one physical disk rather than the two on my faulty drive.
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> Could anyone advise what the best possible option is ?
> If it costs money for a professional service- fine, but I'd like to
> hear your opinions of such services.
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> I have possibly lost 3000+ photos of my son from new born to 2 years
> of age!
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> Any advice would be much appreciated!
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> Thanks
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