[Malvern] Reliable data recovery outfit?

[Andrew Oakley]

Phil Ironside wrote:
> Does anyone know of a reliable data recovery outfit?

If you want someone reasonably local, there's Xytron in Hereford. I've
never used them though.

http://www.xytron.co.uk/

Tricks I have used with some degree of success on non-working hard disks
have included:

* Leaving it in the fridge overnight (a change in temperature can shrink
or unwarp stuck parts). You may need to do this more than once, as it
may only for for the first 20-30 minutes after it leaves the fridge.

* Replacing the circuit board with another from an identical known-good
drive

If the storage is functional but you've simply deleted a file, most of
the undelete utilities do work provided you haven't overwritten the
file.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DataRecovery

If you have overwritten part of the file, and you get to the point where
the tool asks you to manually piece the file back together byte-by-byte,
then IMHO you've lost the game.

Andrew Oakley
Head of Software Development
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