I concur! I can do software recovery when physical components work sporadically for a few hundred dollars. When they are real bad, and will not work properly at all, I have sent them out for recovery to a company in California and the charges in are the thousands. The highest I have had to date was for a Dentist, he paid a bit over $10,000.00 for a full recovery. His entire past 7 years of business was on his drive, no paper back ups and no electronic backups. He now pays me for nightly remote back ups! I would avoid places like Data Doctors, they send them to a local lab for base recovery, this is over $500 for minimal results. If you like I can attempt to recover for you, but I am located in North Scottsdale. Email me off list if you like @ michael.s@iconnetworksolutions.com Michael Sammartano ---- Craig White wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 17:24 -0700, Technomage Hawke wrote: > > Kevin (and others of the list) > > thanks for the suggestions. I've been told that this is very likely a > > hard disk HEAD crash, which would make any data on the drive nearly > > impossible to recover without spending $$$ to get at it (lowest price > > I found so far was $499.00 and it would take a week). I can see now > > why there is such big moeny in data recovery. I can do the software > > stuff easily enough, but some hardware may be out of my reach (HD > > sugery requires a class 100 clean room and I don't have $2 million to > > invest). Now, I wouldn't mind working for one of more of these places. > > they do tend to pay well and I could learn rather a lot. > ---- > sounds like a perfect candidate for the sharp slap between your two > hands methodology to me...desperate times call for desperate measures. > > That's sort of the reason for doing backups...because hard drives do > fail. > > Some of these 'data recovery' companies low ball the initial price and > then when they have the hard drive in their hands and give you the final > quote...it's substantially more money. Then when you get files back, you > often get crap or you get files amongst all the crap and sorting through > it is often not worth the time. > > Craig > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- Please visit http://www.iconnetworksolutions.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss