Would you like to add anything about your
data recovery experience(s)?
Fast service, full recovery, no problems, but extremely
expensive for a laptop 40G disk where the only really crucial
files to be recovered were Outlook saved emails.
Initial diag fee expensive and the rest of the fee was based
on damage to drive.
It took my $110.00 for them to tell me "we might be
able to recover everything but it will cost you $1400.00"
Oh well i guess i have to lose it all. Im no corporation that
can afford that im just a lonely end user Rich
I personally haven't used a Data recovery service but I have
use them for clients. I've only used Ontrack. They were fast,
professional, and expensive. There work is also approved my
most hard drive manufactures so you can use them without voiding
a warranty in most cases.
The only drive I could not recover was an IBM Deskstar (Deathstar)
drive. It ate the MBR. Fortunately that data was backed up
on another drive.
I've just had a hard drive fail. My computer was all fouled
up. I had to get a new hard drive and install Windows on it.
Then I started thinking about all the lost stuff on my "dead"
drive. I found someone recommeding a program called Stellar
Phoenix FAT on a forum somewhere. I downloaded the free trial
version and let it try to scan my "dead" hard drive.
I was amazed, it fully recognized the hard drive and every
thing on it. In order to save everything/anything on it I
was more than happy to buy the licence code to make it operate
fully. I am now waiting for the activation code to arrive
by email. I'm thinking,if it really works- it's probably the
best $79 I've ever spent.
Hard drive zapped in office PC when pest exterminator sprayed
the PC while it was running. Intake case fan sucked in the
insecticide covering the hard drive, memory and motherboard
with liquid. Instant data scramble. Ontrack was able to recover
about 75% for $1500. Lesson learned.
Yes, even backups don't always work. When I ran out of room
on the external harddrive, I moved some items to DVD then
cleaned the HDD. Well it turns out my tax files were moved
to the DVD. Fast forward a year, I've done some upgrades,
reinstalled the OS and replaced the DVD recorder. Suddenly
I need my tax files. The new DVD drive cannot read the backup
DVD neither could another brand. Now the HDD has been reused
so there is no old backup on it. The solution: I was able
to copy the my critical DVD using some older DVD drive. Lesson
learned: even with a double backup strategy can happen. Keep
paper copies of critcial info.
I am a pc technician, and data recovery is a large part of
my side business. I only charge IF I can recover the data
and I charge an excellent price, too! ($20 per hour, plus the
cost of the media the data is saved to).
Posted by geekbooks at March 4, 2005 09:49 PM
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