[Gllug] [OT] Data Recovery companies

[Liam Smit]

HI 

Might have just been the drive electronics that lost their magic smoke.

In which case with a 3.5 IDE it is almost trivial to swap out the PCB
from an identical disk. For a 2.5 IDE it would be harder but it's when
the disk is damaged and needs to be recovered in a clean room
environment that things get expensive.

Cheers
Liam


On 10/06/05, Rich Walker <rw at shadow.org.uk> wrote:
> Ashley Evans <hoshy at hoshy.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Google returns a myriad of companies.  Anybody with positive first hand experience ?
> 
> Yes; I've had a hard-drive recovered by a firm in West London. Hang
> on:
> 
> http://www.datarecoverydirect.co.uk/
> 
> I was upgrading Debian on my laptop, and forgot that /usr was mounted
> -ro. I ended up with a non-usable machine. I thought "I'll plug the
> hard drive in to another box" and stuck the 2.5->3.5 adapter in the
> wrong way round. Smoke.
> 
> They completely recovered it onto a newer, larger drive.
> 
> It wasn't very cheap, but it was a *lot* cheaper than some other
> companies that do the same job.
> 
> cheers, Rich.
> 
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