[NLRS] OT: Hard Drive recovery?

[Dr. Gerald N. Johnson]

Look at http://www.geraldj.networkiowa.com/papers/Recovery/ for 
slowcopy.c and slowcopy.exe. Its extremely tolerant to errors but it is 
sloooooow. It is a MS-DOS program, but most computers will boot to 
MS-DOS from a floppy if a floppy is present. I suppose it could be put 
on a thumb drive for the modern computer that will boot from a thumb drive.

73, Jerry, K0CQ

On 6/29/2010 5:51 PM, Donn - WA2VOI/0 wrote:
>
>
> I had a total HD failure in 2007.  I sent the HD to an outfit in Madison, WI who
> tried to recover the data.  IIRC, the charge would have been ~$300 (Windows)
> with an additional ~$300 if they had to open up the bubble to try to recover the
> data (they did).  No charge with no recovery.  UNFORTUNATELY, the surface of one
> or more platters in the HD was scored, and they were unable to recover anything.
>
> So, yes, it sounds as if $1600 is out of line.
>
> 73 Donn
> WA2VOI/0
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Richardson"<w9fz at w9fz.com>
> To: "NLRS Reflector"<NLRS at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:44 PM
> Subject: [NLRS] OT: Hard Drive recovery?
>
>
>>
>>
>> Say, my sister has a dell laptop in which the HD won't boot. She
>> went to Best Buy and their Geek Squad sent it (the HD) to their
>> regional data recovery center in Louisville (with a clean room).
>> They gave a quote of $1600 to recover the data off of it.
>> That is beyond reasonable for her.
>>
>> Have any you been down this road and found anyplace that recovered
>> your data with a price closer to what you thought reasonable??  I
>> know, there are varying levels of damage requiring varying levels
>> of response.
>>
>> My expectation was in the $400-$600 range.  What have your
>> experiences been if you had to submit to professional data
>> recovery?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bruce Richardson W9FZ
>>
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