Data Recovery Help!

[MaTBoY]

Did you get it fixeded up yet?

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doof, your not on my msn cos you don't put out! pm'ed ya.

[Howie]

Take it down to a data recovery company immediately... $270 is a reasonable price for the work involved. Do not try recovery software or touch the drive.. you could be making subsequent recovery more difficult if you try. If your documents mean anything to you, get an expert to look at it.

I know of a few places in Adelaide that do recovery, just pm me if you want more info.

[DRD-00F]

Take it down to a data recovery company immediately... $270 is a reasonable price for the work involved. Do not try recovery software or touch the drive.. you could be making subsequent recovery more difficult if you try. If your documents mean anything to you, get an expert to look at it.

I know of a few places in Adelaide that do recovery, just pm me if you want more info.

$270 is a shit price for a piece of hardware that still works, it just wiped the header files... the HDD isn't broken...

[Howie]

If it's a bad header.. that's a crap price... if it's a crashed hardie then i've seen worse prices than $270. But seriously, if the data is that important, e.g. you have your 4 years thesis on it or something without a backup, then it's not much to pay.

[MaTBoY]

Do you by any chance work for a data recovery firm?

[Howie]

Me? Nope. I work with pretty critical data though, defence / health records etc... if it's a screwed ntfs header we just fix that using a hex editor, if the drive sounds like it's crashed, we usually send it to the experts. If we try formatting it, or reading off the crash drive, it could make things a lot more difficult to recover for the data specialists, so we tend to leave it alone.

[Primordial]

The reason that the pro data recovery cost so much money is that they dismantle the hard drive, buy a new hard drive exactly the same, and then transplant the platter into the new drive to read the data. This needs to be done in an absolutely clean environment too. Most of the bigger data recovery places have a full on anti-dust clean room. This all costs money!

[D_I_F]

Did you get it fixeded up yet?

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doof, your not on my msn cos you don't put out! pm'ed ya.

No.. Some genius switched the details over on the phone and internet company.. = no internet for me..

Take it down to a data recovery company immediately... $270 is a reasonable price for the work involved. Do not try recovery software or touch the drive.. you could be making subsequent recovery more difficult if you try. If your documents mean anything to you, get an expert to look at it.

I know of a few places in Adelaide that do recovery, just pm me if you want more info.

Dude.. You are posting in the NSW forums.. You have to be kidding right..

$270 is a shit price for a piece of hardware that still works, it just wiped the header files... the HDD isn't broken...

Agreed.. I'm not paying

The reason that the pro data recovery cost so much money is that they dismantle the hard drive, buy a new hard drive exactly the same, and then transplant the platter into the new drive to read the data. This needs to be done in an absolutely clean environment too. Most of the bigger data recovery places have a full on anti-dust clean room. This all costs money!

Correct.. I'm very sterile too!

[DRD-00F]

The reason that the pro data recovery cost so much money is that they dismantle the hard drive, buy a new hard drive exactly the same, and then transplant the platter into the new drive to read the data. This needs to be done in an absolutely clean environment too. Most of the bigger data recovery places have a full on anti-dust clean room. This all costs money!

zackly I went to a really good one of those once... was static and dust free and the workers had to wear air tight suits Their prices for what they charged were astronomical too! I got a quote to just change the motor on the HDD and it was over $500... Me thinks they work mostly for businesses, not little people like me...

Either way Dif, if you turned it on to find there was nothing there, that means the hardware is fine and you are only missing the header files... a software program will be able to sort that out and get most, if not all, of your files back

[D_I_F]

zackly I went to a really good one of those once... was static and dust free and the workers had to wear air tight suits Their prices for what they charged were astronomical too! I got a quote to just change the motor on the HDD and it was over $500... Me thinks they work mostly for businesses, not little people like me...

Either way Dif, if you turned it on to find there was nothing there, that means the hardware is fine and you are only missing the header files... a software program will be able to sort that out and get most, if not all, of your files back

Yep It all works.. Just need to recover shit..

I'm pissed that our net is down.. and some f**k stole my memory stick so I cant download any programs.. GRRR..

[Howie]

The reason that the pro data recovery cost so much money is that they dismantle the hard drive, buy a new hard drive exactly the same, and then transplant the platter into the new drive to read the data. This needs to be done in an absolutely clean environment too. Most of the bigger data recovery places have a full on anti-dust clean room. This all costs money!

Yep Primordial's right... has to be a hermetically sealed area. Oh well, if your data is priceless then that'd be your best bet.

Dude.. You are posting in the NSW forums.. You have to be kidding right..

Easy there son, just trying to help a brother out here.

[D_I_F]

Yep Primordial's right... has to be a hermetically sealed area. Oh well, if your data is priceless then that'd be your best bet.

Easy there son, just trying to help a brother out here.

I know but why would I send it to Adelaide..

It's not hardware problems it's software problems..

I'm not going to pay someone $270 to recover data when I can either do it myself or have people I know do it even cheaper.

[TommO]

I'm not going to pay someone $270 to recover data when I can either do it myself or have people I know do it even cheaper.

If you don't do everything perfect, you might be in a worse situation than you are now.

I can see exactly where Howie is coming from - if the data is *that* criticial to you, don't play around trying to get it back with a free application. If it's stuff you can afford to lose if you totally stuff up, then go for gold

Edited March 27, 2008 by TommO

[Howie]

I know but why would I send it to Adelaide..

It's not hardware problems it's software problems..

I'm not going to pay someone $270 to recover data when I can either do it myself or have people I know do it even cheaper.

You're assuming it's not hardware... the reason I suggested Adelaide, was because I use a group who deal primarily with restoring data for the DoD and the higher education sector.. i've used them plenty of times and I trust them. They aren't backyarders, the owner holds a doctorate in computer systems engineering.

If you don't do everything perfect, you might be in a worse situation than you are now.

I can see exactly where Howie is coming from - if the data is *that* criticial to you, don't play around trying to get it back with a free application. If it's stuff you can afford to lose if you totally stuff up, then go for gold

Exactly... if the data isn't *that* critical, then go your hardest... even try swapping the platter over to a replacement hard drive if you want.

If it is software, then you're laughing then aren't you

[DRD-00F]

pretty certain it's software, being that it turns on and shit...

IF it somehow turns out to be hardware, then yes, it will cost a lot of money, and you should leave it to the pros... BUT IT'S NOT! FOCUS PEOPLE!

[Duncan]

I've used data recovery services twice in the last 15 years and am very happy.

If the data is important why would you bollocks around with it and possibly change it from simple to recover to impossible to recover.

On the other hand, if you can afford to lose it, go for it!

[SECURITY]

if you dont sort it yourself let me know. i've got a mate who is a computer/IT genius and does this kind of sh!t all the time.

[Links]

How'd you go Corrinne? Shouldn't be too hard to recover..

They're just going to do the same thing.. Deleted files only become hard to recover when you overwrite them and the pointers in the MFT/FAT/WHATEVER get changed.. Anyways, really depends on how much you value what's on there!

in the meantime - my 320G drive has suffered mechanical failure - quote from Seagate to restore it - $900-$1700 - price of my gearbox repairs.. yet to work out what i'll do.. Anyone got someone to recommend