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On 06/02/2010 10:23 AM, Ling Cheung wrote: > (Pardon the poor formatting below. Web mail is annoying.) > > --- On Wed, 6/2/10, Jerry Feldman<gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> wrote: > > >> Just make sure you take an image of that drive so if you >> screw up your >> have an out. Additionally, there are data recovery >> companies that will >> recover your data. Since the hardware is working, it should >> be less >> expensive. If you decide to go this route, make sure you >> check their >> reputation. A couple of years ago when one of my HDs died >> and I was >> unaware that my backup was corrupted (32-bit system with a >> virtual >> machine that screwed it up), I sent the drive to a company >> in Chicago >> since the only local companies with good reputations >> locally were too >> expensive. >> > I'm doing the fsck on the image of the hard drive now. It does not look encouraging, and I imagine that I'll have to use a data recovery service. > > I was planning on trying out Tech Fusion, since they're conveniently located to me, but I hadn't thought about shopping around to the extent that you did. How did you check reputations? And do you recall the Chicago company's name? > > > If I recall, Tech Fusion the one place to run away from. They were the first place I contacted, then I checked up on them and got a lot of bad vibes. Secondly, a company I was with 20 years ago used them with not very good results. The company I ended up using was ESS Data Recovery. (http://www.datarecovery.com/). First of all, there was no up front cost If they were unsuccessful. The next thing is they sent me the recovered data on a larger USB drive than was in the contract, which was a good thing. I originally sent my drive to Aero Data Recovery (http://www.aerodr.com) as they had a good reputation. They were unable to repair my drive, and they sent it to ESS (with my permission at no cost). Aero is now owned by ESS. I can send you a list of the companies I researched, but not the results of my search because I did not retain those. The main thing I needed was my checkbook, because it would have taken me a long time to rebuild all the transactions from my backup. The other thing that I was not able to recover from my backup was my email. ESS was able to successfully recover 100% of my data, but the cost was about $1000. Since your disk probably does not require a clean room you may get off cheaper. -- Jerry Feldman<gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846
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