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Bob  All-Star Member 5516 Posts 3/03 |  Posted - Mar 12 2007 : 3:22PMA Seagate hard drive of mine got fried. I’m not sure how, but when I inspected it, the circuit board header was damaged. Luckily, it wasn’t the drive my OS was on, just a slave drive containing data. Unfortunately, I (incredibly stupidly) hadn’t backed up that drive for a couple of weeks and I have business data on that drive that I really need. I tried to fix the drive by replacing the damaged header with a header from an intact hard drive of the same model, but that didn’t work. My computer didn’t recognize the patched drive. (Although maybe I missed a step in my process – I don’t know.) Any suggestions for other self-help strategies? Any suggestions of reputable people or firms that handle data recovery for reasonable prices. Seagate will take a shot at it with a 4-week lead time for $500-$750 (no files, no charge), but I'd like to get it done more quickly and less expensively, if possible. Any help would be appreciated!
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| conquistador Deactivated User Hellhamster. 2947 Posts 10/03 | Posted - Mar 12 2007 : 3:26PM [Link] |
| pinc_noiz Deactivated User 758 Posts 6/05 | Posted - Mar 12 2007 : 3:44PM some one recommended me to use: PC_file_recovery (as this is software, of course you need your hardware (reader/header) working again ...) a local PC shop helped me out then, so I've never actually tried it myself success p_n [Link] |
| Bob All-Star Member 5516 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Mar 12 2007 : 4:13PM Model No. ST3250623A-RK (Ultra ATA/100; 7200 RPM; 16MB Cache) [Link] |
| conquistador Deactivated User Hellhamster. 2947 Posts 10/03 | Posted - Mar 12 2007 : 4:53PM [Link] |
| Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Mar 12 2007 : 6:01PM (Found out today our new sysadmin does have a cleanroom at home, talk about uebergeeky!) Jacco [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Mar 12 2007 : 6:26PM I'd be pissed about the loss of a drive, as well. A 250 gig ATA drive isn't exactly expensive (at least not now) but it isn't a $10 accessory, either. Seagates used to be good drives. I've been hearing bad stuff about them lately, though. And I have a 160 Barracuda that's making some fucked up buzzing noise intermittently. It'll die soon, probably....and probably when it'll be disastrous. [Link] |
| Bob All-Star Member 5516 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Mar 12 2007 : 6:31PM Because I might have damaged the drive myself, I may not take them up on the offer. [Link] |
| conquistador Deactivated User Hellhamster. 2947 Posts 10/03 | Posted - Mar 12 2007 : 6:33PM [Link] |
| kukm4 Member so-cal 212 Posts 9/04 | Posted - Mar 12 2007 : 7:07PM link from DL.tv episode. [Link] |
| Bob All-Star Member 5516 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Mar 15 2007 : 12:06AM After getting a truly horrendous estimate locally, I've decided to send my drive to Seagate to see what they can do. [Link] |
| DrP0rn0 Senior Member 1836 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Mar 16 2007 : 11:17PM http://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm Watch the video of it in action on Tech TV (the video is on the page I linked above); it's pretty neat. There is NO DEMO of SpinRite available. The reason is simple: No one would buy it if there was. It may interest you to know that a lot of "professional" data recovery services use spinrite in house. SpinRite will try many, many, many different passes at the data in many different ways, spending hours and hours if you allow it to. It's nice that it's so small. Gibson writes EVERYTHING in assembly. Spinrite can boot from a floppy or a CDROM, so you don't even really need to install it. This sounds like an ad I am SURE. It's just that I am extremely impressed with the product and I like to share sometimes. I have nothing to do with Steven Gibson, GRC, or SpinRite. I hope this helps someone. Dr. P Edited by - drp0rn0 on 3/16/2007 11:18:43 PM [Link] |
| Jeff @ IAFD Webmaster IAFD.COM 931 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Mar 18 2007 : 9:22AM I'm an Ontrack partner, and I'll say honestly that they're not inexpensive (by a long shot), but I've not seen them unable to recover a drive, either. The Seagate deal seems to follow the good, fast, cheap principle -- they're cheap, which means they're not fast. Ontrack will dial in to a machine and usually remotely fix the drive; only in severe hardware damage will they need the drive... but it's easily 2-3x the price of what Seagate might be charging you -- but it's same day usually; so its the time tradeoff (where cheap gets thrown out the window.) A similar service is DriveSavers which has come recommended to me, but I have not used their services; they're supposed to be cheaper than OnTrack, but the one quote I got from them put them only slightly so. Good luck! [Link] |
| conquistador Deactivated User Hellhamster. 2947 Posts 10/03 | Posted - Mar 18 2007 : 9:16PM [Link] |
| Bob All-Star Member 5516 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Mar 19 2007 : 1:14AM I was quoted $2,400 for a "good-faith attempt at data recovery". Ha, ha, ha! Good faith indeed! [Link] |
| Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Mar 19 2007 : 10:41AM Jacco [Link] |
| Bob All-Star Member 5516 Posts 3/03 | Posted - Mar 19 2007 : 8:05PM I'm going to let Seagate give me a quote, and if it's in the $750 range I'll pay. Otherwise, I'll lick my wounds. I'm backing up my drives on a daily basis now. [Link] |
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