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    Hard Drive Recovery companies...

    Evening,

    I'm trying to find out if there are any hard drive recovery companies in the East Midlands area (or further afield perhaps if they accept drives in the post!). I'm trying to help out my brother who's hard drive is making worrying noises and won't spin up.
    He's doing the old freezer trick (as described on Hexus here: http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hardwa...e-failure.html)

    ...but what's the next stage? There's valuable photos on it

    Anyone had any dealings with recovery companies who could open it up?

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    Re: Hard Drive Recovery companies...

    How old is the drive? When I last looked into this, minimum cost was about £200 but that was a couple of years ago.

    If the drive is really old they may not be able to help as what they do if the mech has failed is to open up the drive in a clean environment ( special air filtering) and put the platters into a new drive with working mech. if new drives are not available then they can't do that

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    Re: Hard Drive Recovery companies...

    OK.
    Well, the drive is only a year old. Unusual for this to happen so soon (at least without a knock). It's a Samsung drive.

    £200 doesnt sound too bad.
    Do you know any companies? Searching just shows up software products.
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    Re: Hard Drive Recovery companies...

    I've used Vogon successfully before, seems they're now a part of Kroll though (if that has any impact on things?)

    http://www.vogon-international.com/

    They accept drives by post, I paid for a motorcycle courier to take it to them. I paid for someone to be there to receive it (I think it arrived around 2am in the end!) due to it being time sensitive data. I had a DVD with all the data on in the post the next day.

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    Re: Hard Drive Recovery companies...

    http://www.dataphoenix.co.uk/?gclid=...FZ1h4wodzDTMJA

    Just Google " Hard drive recovery" and a lot of companies come up.

    I can't recommend any as I never used this service. See link above for an example.

    I would use the one "mycarsavw" used as he seems to have got a good result.

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    Re: Hard Drive Recovery companies...

    Nice one. They look like a very good company. I bet this is gonna cost though.

    Cheers for the tip
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    Re: Hard Drive Recovery companies...

    Its not a cheap process , but at the end of the day , what is the cost of the data on that drive ?
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