Good data recovery service?

[SmootsDaddy89]

Long story short my external crashed. I've got an old internal drive that was being useless that I swapped into the case and it's up as my new backup now but I need to pull the data from the old one. Money isn't an issue, I need a place that can do it without having a bunch of corrupted files and poo. I AM NOT re-downloading all this porn again.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

http://www.newegg.co...N82E16812232002

maybe that will help

best tool i ever bought for pc

[Inimicus]

I looked into this once for a business need. We had a laptop that "lost" its HDD. It had been used by our Director of Finance and had a large quantity of very valuable data on it. Now this was a couple of years ago so things may have changed but it was going to cost us something on the order of 10k to get the data off of the platters of a ~300GB drive.

We decided it was cheaper to rebuild the data...

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

"data recovery" in the sense of paying someone to take the hard drive into a clean room, disassemble it, and do things like reshape the platters and rehouse them will run you like 10 grand easy. it sounds insane but it's true and in the case of head crashes and stuff like that it's about your only option unless you want to try to shadetree mechanic the procedure in your bathroom.

you should try what porn shop clerk suggested. a lot of the time when external HDDs "crash" it's just a case of the PCB that the drive connects to dying because manufacturers cut corners with cheap poo. connect it to an enclosure or plug it up to a dock like what psc linked to and connect it with USB to your machine. you can then browse the drive and copy your stuff over. if there's nothing wrong with the drive and you just want to pull data off of it that option will work fine too. i like the thermaltake docks for this-they're durable and have esata which is much faster than USB: http://www.amazon.co...n/dp/B001A4HAFS

[Porn Shop Clerk]

nice. i may have to get one of those in the future. my little rig has saved many asses though, but i haven't actually had to salvage more than 20gb of data so far.

in the next few years that will change

i had one drive i flat out couldn't access at all though

[Scrumtrilescent]

"data recovery" in the sense of paying someone to take the hard drive into a clean room, disassemble it, and do things like reshape the platters and rehouse them will run you like 10 grand easy. it sounds insane but it's true and in the case of head crashes and stuff like that it's about your only option unless you want to try to shadetree mechanic the procedure in your bathroom.

you should try what porn shop clerk suggested. a lot of the time when external HDDs "crash" it's just a case of the PCB that the drive connects to dying because manufacturers cut corners with cheap poo. connect it to an enclosure or plug it up to a dock like what psc linked to and connect it with USB to your machine. you can then browse the drive and copy your stuff over. if there's nothing wrong with the drive and you just want to pull data off of it that option will work fine too. i like the thermaltake docks for this-they're durable and have esata which is much faster than USB: http://www.amazon.co...n/dp/B001A4HAFS

I have 3 of these plugged into my main workstation at work. I send work out by the TB, so it's the best way to get data to a HDD.

Oh, and if price isn't an option, RAIDing would've helped this problem from the beginning.

[Floppin]

While we are on the subject. Anyone know an efficient way of getting data off of dead flash drive? I'm pretty sure that it has a burnt resistor. I've re-soldered all the connection but I can't get it to work. The computer doesn't recognize it as being plugged in. Basically like there's nothing there. A teacher friend of mine has 10 years worth of lesson plans on the thing and I told her that I'd look at it. Local computer shop told her 5k to pull the data.

[Porn Shop Clerk]

i can't believe she did not back that thing up.

no pun intended

that's a hard lesson to learn. (lol a teacher c wat i did there?)

buy a cheapo flash and resolder the drive to the new board?

[SmootsDaddy89]

This might be a retarded question but if I took the drive out of the enclosure and connected it straight to my motherboard with my BIOS not even recognizing that the drive existed, is that SATA/IDE to USB going to give me any better luck?

[Porn Shop Clerk]

not unless the port on your mobo is bad i guess

[Inimicus]

This might be a retarded question but if I took the drive out of the enclosure and connected it straight to my motherboard with my BIOS not even recognizing that the drive existed, is that SATA/IDE to USB going to give me any better luck?

The drive is dead. Get comfortable with a 10k+ bill to get the data or start the grieving process.

[Darth Biscuit]

i can't believe she did not back that thing up.

no pun intended

that's a hard lesson to learn. (lol a teacher c wat i did there?)

buy a cheapo flash and resolder the drive to the new board?

Doesn't surprise me in the slightest... most people look at those things like they're just a piece of paper or something. My wife's a teacher and did sort of the same thing... except she lost hers. I asked her where the original files were... "those were the originals". Her excuse was that she didn't want to take up space on her hard drive... she was quite upset after I explained to her that she could have copied that thumb drive to her hard drive about 100 times with no problem.