I called them a few minutes back. They charge $100 for evaluation and then give me a list of all files and folders that they recover ... I was told that the mechanical failure recovery costs anywhere between $900 - $1900 ... So, I decided it is not worth it.
<br><br>Thanks for the tip regarding swapping mechanical components ... I wonder how hard/easy that is ... I might be willing to give it a try if I could lay my hand on a spare drive ..<br><br>Subbu.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 10/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chris Barber</b> <<a href="mailto:stuff@cb1inc.com">stuff@cb1inc.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Lucky for you Kroll Ontrack is located in Eden Prairie and they are
data recovery specialists. Not lucky for you because they are not
cheap. Last time I heard they charge based on the amount of data they
recover. In the event of a hardware failure, one of their strategies
is to track down the same drive model and swap the mechanical
components.<br>
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There web address is: <a href="http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com</a>.
If you do use them, I'd be curious how they are? Expensive?
Accurately? Timely?<br>
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-Chris<br>
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Subramanya Sastry wrote:
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I just had the misfortune of having my hard drive crash on me ... it
seems like a mechanical failure ... horrible clicking noises ...<br>
<br>
There is some data on there that I haven't backed up recently, plus, I
had used this drive as a backup for data on some other hard drive ...
while this is not catastrophic data loss, I was wondering if folks had
any suggestions for recovering data in the face of mechanical failure
... or what it might cost if I paid some service for data recovery in
the twin cities.
<br>
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It is a ext3 file system .. though not sure that matters ... <br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
Subbu.<br>
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