[Novalug] Hard Drive Data Recovery

[John Warren]

$219 for hard data recovery?!?!?!

That is way too cheap to possibly be a clean room recovery.  I have
used OnTrack* extensively at past jobs, $219 wouldn't pay a
technicians salary for a day, much less cover the equipment, rent,
support infrastructure and such.  I couldn't trust a service that is
so under priced.

If the drive is clicking, it's probably a stuck control arm (happens
all the time).  In a reduced dust environment you can open the case
and with the power turned on attempt to move the drive arm past the
sticking point, takes only a few minutes and works most of the time.
The drive will usually work long enough to recover the data (actually
I have one drive I did that to 7 years ago that's still humming along
fine).

Also don't forget to try tools like DDrescue* and Partimage* (from a
live CD) if you do fix a stuck control arm.

***********************************LINKS*********************************************
http://www.ontrack.com/
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page
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-John
On 7/6/07, Greg Faust <gregfaust at gmail.com> wrote:
>
<snip>
>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.