I have an /extremely/ good program that I used to recover data off a
crashed drive that wasn't even being recognised by the OS.
Unfortunately it is windows only - if you're interested I can sort out
getting you a copy (27mb)?
Charlie
Chris Aitken said the following on 13/11/07 09:25:
>> I'm after a recommendation for a disk recovery company, preferably in
>> Hampshire.
>>
>> The HD in my Brothers PC has died, and it contains the only copy of
>> most of the pictures of his 2 month-old daughter, so he's willing to pay
>> to get them back. I'm pretty sure the HD itself is dead, as I've tried
>> it in 3 PCs with various connection configurations (master/slave etc.)
>> and none of them can see it in the bios, and if you hold it in your
>> hand, you can't feel it spin-up.
>>
>> Does anyone have any experience with a commercial recovery company ?
>>
>> I know they can be expensive, but he's willing to pay a reasonable
>> amount, although obviously we'd like to find one that are willing to
>> take a look at the disk and "give us a quote" for the work, as it were.
>>
>
> I've used Vogon in the past. I don't remember much other than they did
> not recover the data! From memory it was a cost issue for the company
> (I think it was approaching £2K).
>
> I still have the platter now albeit as a coaster on my desk.
>
