hard drive crash

[any info would be appreciated]

A friend of mine had a hard drive crash and lost some
important documents.You guessed it he didn't back up.
My question does anyone have a e-mail or a snail address
for a company that can retrieve things on his hard drive?

 

[NoNoBadDog!]

How important is the data? Most of the Data Recovery companies charge a
minimum of $300 per hour, and it can take several hours to locate, filter
and assemble data.

Bobby

 

[Guest]

There are dozens of companies allover the world..just do a 'google' and find
one enar your country, city, town or suburb!

The charge for this is generally around US $300 to perform a test and
recover. Even if they only get one document.

 

[traumajohn]

Some drives crash completely and others just won't allow
you to boot up. If it is the last one you can get a usb
cradle to put your drive in and act like a slave or back
up drive. Then if you can see the drive you can retrieve
the data and send it to the good "master" drive assuming
you have a second pc or laptop you can run the cradle on.
john

 

[David Kelsey]

There is a program called FILERECOVERY, available from one or another of the
CNET, ZDNet or whatever. It recovered my files from a drive that wouldn't
boot, and reported two bad sectors when tested by the Seagate online
software. You can do a free trial with Filerecovery, and if it does the
business, you can then pay them about £33 for the full program which enables
you to save the recovered files to another drive. When my hard drive
crashed, I was advised that it was non-recoverable, even though the people
who said this knew nothing about my drive, so don't give up and spend lots
of money until you have tried FR. You will probably need a new hard drive
anyway, so nothing will be wasted. Or you can recover to a CD-RW or DVD, or
a big Zip, or whatever you have in the way of storage. If you can't boot,
then you will have to get the new drive first, and install XP or whatever on
it.

Good luck! Come back if you want to talk about it.

David Kelsey

 

[Al Dykes]

There is a program called FILERECOVERY, available from one or another of the
CNET, ZDNet or whatever. It recovered my files from a drive that wouldn't
boot, and reported two bad sectors when tested by the Seagate online
software. You can do a free trial with Filerecovery, and if it does the
business, you can then pay them about £33 for the full program which enables
you to save the recovered files to another drive. When my hard drive
crashed, I was advised that it was non-recoverable, even though the people
who said this knew nothing about my drive, so don't give up and spend lots
of money until you have tried FR. You will probably need a new hard drive
anyway, so nothing will be wasted. Or you can recover to a CD-RW or DVD, or
a big Zip, or whatever you have in the way of storage. If you can't boot,
then you will have to get the new drive first, and install XP or whatever on
it.

Good luck! Come back if you want to talk about it.

David Kelsey

I recommend ontrack.com. They've been around for years.


A client of ours used them to recover a server disk crash. Recovery
would have been unnecessary if the client had put tapes
in the tape drive he paid for.

 

[David Kelsey]

I didn't think they let you do your own recovery, do they? I know they will
do the business for you, at a price. And don't you have to send the drive
to them for evaluation?

David Kelsey

 

[David Kelsey]

I should have added that FILERECOVERY recovers the files (assuming they are
recoverable) in about thirty seconds, and presents an Explorer view of the
entire drive for you to pick from. It will also search for specific files
or folders if you can't find them in the Explorer view. It probably won't
be able to recover a mechanical disaster where something is physically
broken.

David Kelsey