Can anyone recomment a good data recovery service for an external hard
drive? How much would it cost? I am not in a hurry.

From: "Robert" <(E-Mail Removed)>

| Can anyone recomment a good data recovery service for an external hard
| drive? How much would it cost? I am not in a hurry.


http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/

~$1,500.00 USD

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Dave
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On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:46:41 -0400, "Robert"
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> Can anyone recomment a good data recovery service for an external hard
> drive? How much would it cost? I am not in a hurry.



Read David Lipman's reply. He recommended one. I just wanted to add
that the approximate price he quoted is not unusual; it's in the
typical price range for that kind of service.

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thanx
"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
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> From: "Robert" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>
> | Can anyone recomment a good data recovery service for an external hard
> | drive? How much would it cost? I am not in a hurry.
>
>
> http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/
>
> ~$1,500.00 USD
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
>
>
>

thanx
"Ken Blake, MVP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:46:41 -0400, "Robert"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Can anyone recomment a good data recovery service for an external hard
>> drive? How much would it cost? I am not in a hurry.
>
>
>
> Read David Lipman's reply. He recommended one. I just wanted to add
> that the approximate price he quoted is not unusual; it's in the
> typical price range for that kind of service.
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup

From: "Robert" <(E-Mail Removed)>

| thanx

YW

Let me just say that I have used there services several times. Sometimes to save a few $$
I'll send them the bad hard drive and a good hard drive and they'll extract the files and
place them on the good drive. Then send both back to me. Other times they have sent the
drive back with a USB external hard disk on which they extracted the files from the bad
drive.

In ALL cases their service has ben quality!


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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
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"Robert" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Can anyone recomment a good data recovery service for an external hard
> drive? How much would it cost? I am not in a hurry.

The last time I had to get a a quote from a data recovery service, the
target was a 100 gig laptop drive, and the client opted for the "no rush"
service. The estimate was about CDN$1600, and considerably more for the
"rush" service.

In the end, they looked at the drive and the heads had crashed into the
platters and they judged the data unrecoverable. The recovery service
was owned by the manufacturer of the drive.

Whether the drive is internal or external doesn't matter. You're sending
the drive in, not your PC. The service will provide instructions for
packing.

And you always paid $1000+? How much data did they recover? Is it more
based on the amount?

"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote in message
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> From: "Robert" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>
> | thanx
>
> YW
>
> Let me just say that I have used there services several times. Sometimes
> to save a few $$
> I'll send them the bad hard drive and a good hard drive and they'll
> extract the files and
> place them on the good drive. Then send both back to me. Other times
> they have sent the
> drive back with a USB external hard disk on which they extracted the files
> from the bad
> drive.
>
> In ALL cases their service has ben quality!
>
>
> --
> Dave
> http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
> Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp
>
>

Thanks for the info. Did your unrecoverable driive make any noises? I did
hear mine make some clicks about a week before it actually stopped.

"Patrick Keenan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Robert" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:4b9f3761$0$12441$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Can anyone recomment a good data recovery service for an external hard
>> drive? How much would it cost? I am not in a hurry.
>
> The last time I had to get a a quote from a data recovery service, the
> target was a 100 gig laptop drive, and the client opted for the "no rush"
> service. The estimate was about CDN$1600, and considerably more for the
> "rush" service.
>
> In the end, they looked at the drive and the heads had crashed into the
> platters and they judged the data unrecoverable. The recovery service
> was owned by the manufacturer of the drive.
>
> Whether the drive is internal or external doesn't matter. You're sending
> the drive in, not your PC. The service will provide instructions for
> packing.
>
>

From: "Robert" <(E-Mail Removed)>

| And you always paid $1000+? How much data did they recover? Is it more
| based on the amount?

They recovered at least 90%. Sometime 100% if there was no problems on the platters.

Yes, the price was always ~1,500.00 USD.


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Dave
http://www.claymania.com/removal-trojan-adware.html
Multi-AV - http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp