Re: [OT] data recovery

[Geoff H <yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It may not be cheap to recover the data but you may want to get the
advice of a professional company before trying a home rescue. It all
depends upon how important the information you need to recover really is.

I have used software from http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/

They have a trial version of the software to see if it will work, but
you may decide to use their other services of physical recovery of data.
I have no idea how much this will cost.

I used their software with great success on a work PC.

Geoff

Jim Noble wrote:
> Ho Yin Ng wrote:
>
>> Oh bummer ...
>> SWMBO's mac laptop hard disk has gone t!ts up.
>>
>>
>
> :-( Was it a Fujitsu drive by any chance? (Google for "Fujitsu
sudden
> death syndrome")
>
>
>> As per usual she never listened to my requests to back it up.
>> No real important documents but loads of photos she wants to
recover.
>> Disk is not visible in disk utility and I tried putting it in a
caddy
>> to see if I can access it through my PC, but no luck.
>>
>>
>
> If a half-dead HD has stuff you /really/ want to recover, don't even
> attempt to get it to work, just take it to a professional. Learnt that
> the hard way :-(
>
>
>> Can someone recommend a cheap, but good data recovery service?
>>
>>
>
> Not sure such a thing exists I'm afraid (without an element of
luck...).
> Also, going to the cheap place first could scupper any chance of the
> expensive place succeeding either. Decide now how important the data
on
> the HD is before choosing which place to send it to...
>
> When my powerbook HD died, I sent it to a place near Shepherd's Bush,
> but they failed to retrieve anything and I wasn't overly impressed
with
> their service. I then tried a place in Letchworth, who appeared to
make
> a valiant effort, but ultimately failed. The last ditch chance was
going
> to be to send it to a place that could extract the platters,
"scan" them
> and re-construct the HD image from the scan data. But that was going
to
> cost at least £1k, and even then might not work, so I bailed on
the idea
> and vowed to be more thorough with my backups.
>
> I *think* this is the place I was going to use:
> http://www.datarecoverydoctor.co.uk
>
> They seemed to be the only ones I could find who talk about any form
of
> recovery beyond either replacing the drive electronics or the drive
> heads (which is all that most places are capable of).
>
> HTH,
>
> Jim
>
>
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