can anyone recomend a UK based data recovery co

happytechie · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:50

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

happytechie · 19 Jul 2006 at 15:17

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

happytechie · 19 Jul 2006 at 15:59

thanks they look interesting, have you used them and did they get your data back?

HT

happytechie · 19 Jul 2006 at 17:13

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

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