[Novalug] Hard Drive Data Recovery

[Greg Faust]

Is anyone experienced with data recovery?  I know this is more of a hardware
question than a linux question.  I have a IBM DeskStar 120GB drive that is
loaded with family photos and videos.  I'm probably going to send it out for
data recovery, but I was wondering if anyone is experienced with data
recovery and has access to a semi-clean room.  I'd be willing to buy a donor
drive for parts.  This drive was actually my backup.  I configured my
machine for raid0 (sripe) and went to copy the data back onto the raid from
my backup and about half way thorugh the drive holding my backup data
started clicking and stopped copying.  Now I can't get the machine to
recognize it as a valid device and it just keeps clicking.  I did find these
guys online that charge a $219 flat rate to recover data from a hardware
failure, but I'm not sure how good they are:
http://www.aerodr.com/pricing.asp.
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