Can anyone recommend a Data Recovery Company?

Post #139,973 by mmoffitt 2/5/04 10:38:45 AM Reply	Can anyone recommend a Data Recovery Company? A friend of mine had a little (1.6G) hard drive crash and asked me to recommend a data recovery company. I had used one once many years ago. I'd give you more info about the drive, but I don't have any. Thanks in advance. bcnu, Mikem I don't do third world languages. So no, I don't do Java.
Post #140,000 by folkert 2/5/04 12:32:02 PM Reply	Costly... but EXCELLENT www.ontrack.com -- [link\|mailto:greg@gregfolkert.net\|greg], [link\|http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry\|REMEMBER ED CURRY!] @ *i_wethey* "Lately, The only thing keeping me from being a Serial Killer is my distaste for manual labor." -- Dilbert Calendar, January 4, 2004
Post #140,002 by mmoffitt 2/5/04 12:34:23 PM Reply	Thanks! bcnu, Mikem I don't do third world languages. So no, I don't do Java.
Post #140,079 by lister 2/5/04 4:17:04 PM Reply	Be prepared for a potentially high pricetag A number of years ago I had a 4GB SCSI Seagate Barracuda die on me all of a sudden after the warranty period was over. (That really hurt considering how much the drive cost me to buy.) No backups of course. Running OS/2 HPFS. I took it to a recovery place here in Toronto, a good one, and was quoted $2500 for recovery of anything useful. If they couldn't get anything that I wouldn't have been charged. I figured that $2500 was too steep for me. lister
Post #140,141 by mmoffitt 2/5/04 9:09:01 PM Reply	Thanks. This really is a friend of mine and I already warned him that it was going to be expensive. I note that ontrack.com lets you fill in parameters and then some goober will call you with a quote. For my purposes, that'll be good enough and I can let my buddy make the call on whether he wants to part with that much cash. Man, the prices have really gone up! It was years ago that I sent a drive off somewhere in California for a client (a tiny one by today's standards - 700Meg). Back then it cost me a couple hundred bucks and we got back around 70% of the data. bcnu, Mikem I don't do third world languages. So no, I don't do Java.
Post #150,708 by qstephens 4/10/04 5:56:03 AM Reply	Re: Thanks. When you need them, you need them. At a previous gig, one of our salesmen had the info for a multi-million pound contract when his laptop disk died. Paying \ufffd1000 to get it back was a small price to pay. qts

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