Data recovery specialists.

kleefarr

I need to send off a hard drive which will need dismantling and the data recovering. (it has the click of death)
I have read that it's advisable to send it to the UK.
Does anyone have any recommendations please?

Kevin

SouperComputer

CBLtech, free assesment too

kleefarr

Thanks.

Actually, after having a search I found these guys in Belfast that look like they could be worth a try, especially as they have a 50% promotion on at the moment.

Easy Recovery

Do you know anything about them?

Bluetonic

How badly is it?

Have you tried doing it yourself with booting a machine up with KNOPPIX and seeing if the drive is mounted? If you can you can easily move it to an external disk yourself.

Just an idea and away from your original topic.

kleefarr

Bluetonic wrote:

How badly is it?

Have you tried doing it yourself with booting a machine up with KNOPPIX and seeing if the drive is mounted? If you can you can easily move it to an external disk yourself.

Just an idea and away from your original topic.

Clicking all the time and not recognised in bios even on auto.
This is a hard drive from a vets PC and despite my frequent reminders to back up regularly he has failed to do so. When I asked him if he had backed up he said "Yes but it's not a real back up." Which in my book means he hasn't. He was quite keen to save the data on it so I don't want to be starting it up more than necessary, but when I just phoned him and told him that it would need sending off to a lab, dismantling and the data recovering, which could cost anything up to about €700, he said he would think about it and get back to me.
If anything, this will get him to do a back up on a more regular basis, which reminds me, I must do mine again.

Bluetonic

Try downloading KNOPPIX and booting from it. I'd be fairly confident the drive will be mounted and readable.

Knoppix is a flavour of Linux which runs from CD.

Static M.e.

which could cost anything up to about €700,

It can cost a lot more than that.

I sent one off before from a Hospital Consultant and it cost a small fortune to get the information back, We had to pay the first crowd a couple of hundred to "try" get the data back they couldnt so they sent it off to Engerland to another company which cost something in the region of 1400 or so. Now this was about 3 or 4 years ago but I remember being amazed at the amount of money being charged. At the time they didnt even get it all that much information back.

I would try the freezer trick and if it works it works if not leave it at that or the Knoppix bit.

SouperComputer

If its clicking and the data is important, forget the freezer and forget knoppix. Ship it to CBLtech or Ontrack in the UK. Otherwise take your chances......

I get the impression (possibly wrongly) that easyrecovery dont have clean room facilites of their own.

kleefarr

Well the ball is still in his court. No phonecall back yet.

tech

CBL Tech are the business as to deal with Frank Priest

a great guy had a few sucess stories