On Tuesday 13 November 2007 09:35:00 Charlie de Courcy wrote:
> 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.
Get a second hand disk exactly the same as the hard disk that has died. You
should be able to replace the electronics of the died hard disk. Having done
this it should be possible to retrieve the old data.
I know someone who has often done this.
John Eayrs
