can anyone recomend a UK based data recovery co

happytechie

happytechie

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hi all,

we hae a dead hard drive from a laptop that has about 30 Gb of unbacked up (I know) of vital data on it. The drive itself is not read/writable and makes nasty clunking noises. It's a seagate laptop drive if that matters.

I need to send it to some company, get them to recover it (hopefully) and get the data back. Does anyone have any reconmendations of companies or do I have to google and lucky dip it?

cheers

HT
 
thanks for that useful revalation marc, money isn't really the issue here, the data is probably worth about 30 man days of effort fomr one of our consultants. Given that his time is worth more than £1.5K a day the cost will be dealable with.

I am more than aware that

A: it's going to cost me
B: it's probably going to take a few days
C: it might not get 100% of the data back
D: the user should have been performing backups

given all these things does anyone have any recomendations? Did the company that quoted you between £1-3K get your data back and how much did they actually charge you?

HT
 
used them twice

30Gb laptop 2.5" drive
and a 3Gb 3.5" drive

recovered everything OK

the fast service isn't actually as fast as they make out, due to lots of faffing with credit card payments. ('tis always the same with corporate purchasing) so go for the cheaper service (middle option)

They sent the last lot on DVD, when I'd actually asked for a hard drive, but I got a freebie 80Gb drive out of it.

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well it's in the post (OK it's with a biker but you know what I mean) :D

we'll see how they do aparently if they fail to recover it it's free so it's a win win situation tbh. I'm intrigued to nkow how they are going to get 25Gb of data abck to us but I don't really care if it works

thanks for your time

HT
 
happytechie:

I would be very interested how much of your data they get back for you, would appreciate it, if you could post back the results. :)
 
Well sorry happytechie - I was only giving you an idea of the cost in case you hadn't got any quotes yet.

The company I was working for were rather more maverik and decided to let me have a go at fixing it. Fortunately they had an identical HD so I swapped the PCB from the new to the faulty one. I got lucky and it worked.

The company we were going to use was called vogon.

Marc
 
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