Data Recovery companies

Schizophonic · 13 Sep 2010 at 14:30

I've gone through trying to access a USB portable hard drive manually and I'm going to resort to sending it off to a recovery center. Any one know any good reliable ones?

Liquidfox · 13 Sep 2010 at 14:47

Is the data really worth that much to you? Data recovery is far from cheap!

apatia77 · 13 Sep 2010 at 14:52

It could cost you a lot of money to recover any data from your failed drives.

Sp00n · 13 Sep 2010 at 14:53

Ontrack.

GinG · 13 Sep 2010 at 14:56

Wait.....you didnt catch your husband filming you...did you?!

edscdk · 13 Sep 2010 at 14:56

I assume you have removed it from the usb enclosure and tried it?

also I assume its either dead or not detected / ticking, if its spinning and detected I have seen quite a few ntfs drives that windows cannot even see a partition on or crashes until you force a chkdsk during boot (and it must be attached via ide/sata not usb)

sorry not to answer your question but just checking you have looked at all the options..

you can also get an identical drive and swap the PCB, that obviously only works if the pcb is faulty

wnb · 13 Sep 2010 at 15:11

I had the date recovered from a failed hd, needed it pretty quick so ended up paying through the nose. Prices varied from a couple hundred quid for a 30 day turnaround to what i paid £1200

for a few days. think they were called datatrack-labs

Superficial · 13 Sep 2010 at 15:26

http://www.rapid-data.net/

the last time i check a month ago they were £200.00 maximum but could be cheaper.

I highly suggest cracking the usb caddy open and plugging the srive directly into your PC before spending any monney. failing that get hold of some drive recovery software - these are excellent.

as sais though - in the event of a hardware issue see link above.

Sp00n · 13 Sep 2010 at 15:28

If its hardware, try freezer bag trick, especially if its a small amount of data required

edscdk · 13 Sep 2010 at 15:30

Sp00n said:
If its hardware, try freezer bag trick, especially if its a small amount of data required

dont forget its in there.... i jsut remembererd I left some beerin the fridge...

Gornall · 13 Sep 2010 at 15:30

GinG said:
Wait.....you didnt catch your husband filming you...did you?!

Made me chuckle

taliesyn · 13 Sep 2010 at 15:34

Sp00n said:
Ontrack.

Used them for a client. They are spot on, but expensive.

Sp00n · 13 Sep 2010 at 15:39

taliesyn said:
Used them for a client. They are spot on, but expensive.

They are indeed which is why I would suggest doing everything other than sending it off first, but I trust ontrack as I used to work for Kroll so if all else fails

Luke · 13 Sep 2010 at 16:40

Sp00n said:
If its hardware, try freezer bag trick, especially if its a small amount of data required

I've used this several times in the past to get a drive reading for a few minutes at a time to get the data off.
Used in conjunction with an aircon unit you can extend the readable time quite nicely.