A guy at PC backups once told me Ontrack will negotiate downward if they perceive that the data is less valuable to you. I think it's a subjective analysis but you might try bargaining with them. I'm certain that even with half the rate they would still make a tidy profit. Unfortunately, where the drive has a mechanical failure I suspect you don't have too many options. You can search the web for data recovery and you'll find quite a number of places that may be worth researching but it seems they may require you to pay for the estimate and that gets pretty expensive as well. Its a painful experience and I hope everyone is learning from it. It seems rather suspicious to me that they can determine "25,4798 good files =(14.9 GB) and 0 bad files" without opening the drive and yet need clean room expertise (open the drive) to recover the data. Anybody know what it is I'm not understanding here. How much was the estimate? David Blevins wrote: >Yikes, I just got a quote back from OnTrack on the data recovery...$1,800! > > -- Paul Overby xpoverby at attbi.com phone: 651-452-3233 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list