Hard Drive Physical Recovery

redman

Anyone got personal recommendations for a physical hard disk recovery.
I have a 1Tg disk which has I/O errors and looking for a professional physical recovery service.

Webmonkey

I used these guys few years back: http://www.motherboard.ie/

Cost about 800 euro. They sent back another drive with the data on it. However, this was an issue where the platter fell off, more a mechanical error. If you have physical I/O errors, the disk could be damaged on the area.

Worth contacting them anyways.

Capt'n Midnight

Unless you have totally given up on recovery an alternative is to try a linux boot disk , note this will take bloody ages on a 1TB disk unless it's only a small area not reading

http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/Ddrescue

First you copy as much data as possible, without retrying or splitting sectors:

ddrescue --no-split /dev/hda1 imagefile logfile

Now let it retry previous errors 3 times, using uncached reads:

ddrescue --direct --max-retries=3 /dev/hda1 imagefile logfile

If that fails you can try again but retrimmed, so it tries to reread full sectors:

ddrescue --direct --retrim --max-retries=3 /dev/hda1 imagefile logfile

the logfile means it carries on where it left off next time and won't retry a sector once it's pulled it back


www.easyrecovery.co.uk - £249.99+vat

redman

thanks for all that!