[Cialug] OT - Hard drive recovery

[rbsquared at mchsi.com]

Thanks for the information.  I passed this along.  BTW, my friend told me that recovery of a 40 gig hard drive, regardless of the amount of data actually on the disk, is about $600.  This makes the time and effort required for regular back ups look very in expensive.

-------------- Original message from Paul Gray <gray at cs.uni.edu>: -------------- 


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> On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 05:25:00PM +0000, rbsquared at mchsi.com wrote: 
> > Does anyone have a recommendation for data recovery service that could 
> recovery data from a crashed ( bad bearings) hard drive. The person is most 
> interested in recovering photos, mp3s, and some quicken data. As always, price 
> is an object. 
> 
> Have you considered purchasing a duplicate drive and swapping the platters? 
> 
> It's a delicate process, prone to errors, but if you're outsourcing the 
> recovery it won't be cheap. 
> 
> - -Paul 
> (who recently recovered an 80GB laptop drive by swapping platters -- pictures 
> available.) 
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