HDD Data Recovery

[TRNC]

My laptop blue-screened half hour ago, on its reboot its no longer recognising the HDD, booting just says "no operating system" and the bios is showing no HDD.

so - its nackered

Can anyone recommed me a good, reliable, fast data recovery service who can get the data off my drive - its fully encrypted with truecrypt to make it a bit trickier!!

This is urgent, and before anyone asks, no I dont have a backup of the machine in the recent past.

 

[sidethink]

Kroll Ontrack are fast, reliable and you'll pay handsomely for it. But they don't mess around.

 

[J.B]

Hope this data is worth a lot to you as it is going to cost

 

[TRNC]

Yeah its worth a fair bit with things like the company accounts on the laptop and a VAT return due this month they are critical!!

I've sent the drive off and will find out tomorrow what the damage is and recovery cost.

 

[Liquidfox]

We had to do it a few months ago, a company wasn't backing up their data and 2 drives failed in their RAID0 (Not something we set up ).

It cost them £300 for diagnostics and then around £2,600 for a 48 hour turn around from OnTrak. They were happy to pay it though, as the financial data on there was worth around £1mil+ we reckon.

They sharply replaced every single bit of kit in the company after that little mishap, and the bloke who was responsible for backups on site got a swift kick up the rear.

 

[TRNC]

Well I got all my data back for the sum of £700 including VAT and a replacement drive

 

[PaulB]

Make sure you start making backups - you've learnt it's an expensive mistake to make!

 

[Liquidfox]

They say there's two kinds of people. Those who backup, and those who have never lost data

 

[TRNC]

we did backup everything....except that laptop!!

We have now added additional backups to "the cloud" of any critical data in addition to the normal backup schedule.