[Cialug] Hard Drive Crashed

[Nathan C. Smith]

I have used ontrack or kroll data recovery up in Minnesota before.
Seagate's data recovery also.  Both of them are very good.  They are used to
handling panicked people.  They are very expensive though.

There is always the drive-in-the-freezer trick.  I don't know if it applies
to this situation.

-Nate 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Stien [mailto:nathanism at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 3:48 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] Hard Drive Crashed
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a 20GB laptop drive that has started knocking really loudly at
> boot, and it's got valuable data on it.  Most likely a head has gone
> bad.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone had a favorite data recovery service
> company.  They have to be savvy enough to perform hardware surgery on
> the drive.  Money is indeed an object, so low prices are good prices.
> 
> I googled around and have called some companies for price quotes,
> including adrdatarecovery.com and acsdata.com.  I'm looking for advice
> from people who have actually gone through this.  If there's an
> Iowa-based company that does this, so much the better.
> 
> I doubt I have the testicular fortitude to attempt someting like this:
> http://www.hackaday.com/2005/11/17/hard-drive-resurrection/
> 
> My biggest objection to the above method is that how would you align
> the platters after you move them to the new drive enclosure?  It seems
> more than slightly impossible.
> 
> Anyways, thanks in advance to anyone with some tips for me.
> 
> - Nathan
> 
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