Hard Drive Failure!

[E11OOT]

Hard drive starts to spin up and then jumps, speeds up jumps etc etc.

200Gb's of stuff on there, anyone know of any good companies that deal with data recovery?

 

[Daz]

You got plenty of money for the recovery?

Hardware failures can cost a fortune to recover from..

 

[E11OOT]

You got plenty of money for the recovery?

Hardware failures can cost a fortune to recover from..

what sort of prices for that amount of data?

 

[ChrisH]

£6-700 upwards iirc

 

[E11OOT]

£6-700 upwards iirc

:quiet: surpose i have to work out how priceless some of the photos and other bits are worth!

 

[guysy]

You heard of the hard drive in the freezer trick? Ive never tried it but i think some people have got it to work.

http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recover-data.html

 

[E11OOT]

You heard of the hard drive in the freezer trick? Ive never tried it but i think some people have got it to work.

http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recover-data.html

thats an intresting idea!


200Gb's in 2mins - thats some good transfer rate i'd need!

 

[guysy]

I read somewhere else that you can repeat this several times, amounthing to max 20 mins of use. Still its worth a try.

 

[E11OOT]

I read somewhere else that you can repeat this several times, amounthing to max 20 mins of use. Still its worth a try.

yeah ok, i'm off to get a freezer bag........

 

[ChrisH]

yeah freezer trick is definately worth a try.

 

[Moz168]

Active Partion Recovery. Managed to get most of my stuff back when my hard drive packed up.
It not expensive to buy or you might be able to find it for free somewhere...

 

[sn00p]

Hard drive starts to spin up and then jumps, speeds up jumps etc etc.

200Gb's of stuff on there, anyone know of any good companies that deal with data recovery?

"stuff" = pr0n

Gutted for you mate.

 

[E11OOT]

Active Partion Recovery. Managed to get most of my stuff back when my hard drive packed up.
It not expensive to buy or you might be able to find it for free somewhere...

how does that program work?

 

[Daz]

Active Partion Recovery. Managed to get most of my stuff back when my hard drive packed up.
It not expensive to buy or you might be able to find it for free somewhere...

how does that program work?

Badly, when it's a physical problem

 

[Cookie]

£6-700 upwards iirc

PMSL and the rest!

At my last company we sent a few off to get looked at, bill for £1500 per disk, and no data recovered as the heads had put grooves into the platters

 

[Moz168]

how does that program work?

Badly, when it's a physical problem

It starts up though. Aslong as you havent been messing about with it, then it might be ok. Thats what mine was doing. Didnt get everything back but got quite alot.

Theres 'Active File Recovery' too which might come as part of the package, which is for recovering specific files.

I dont really know how you would do it though coz you would need another computer wouldnt you? Unless were talking about an external hard drive...

 

[sn00p]

£6-700 upwards iirc

PMSL and the rest!

At my last company we sent a few off to get looked at, bill for £1500 per disk, and no data recovered as the heads had put grooves into the platters

+1

My boss had 2 drives go (luckily while I was in Australia) the same day - and no, he hadn't been backing up.

Drives went off for recovery and nothing came back. Utterly trashed.

 

[MrAtego]

Will let you know how it works , just put an old hd of mine in freezer! Works randomly but only for seconds sounds like this may help, got a crazy look though when putting it in freezer!

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Kroll Ontrack are the company you need, best in the business.

Some of the prices in the thread seem way off from my experience, all depends on the size of the hard drive though really and damage etc.

Does your computer see it at all before the problems happen?