OT: 2.5" hdd data recovery

Ralph Ellis ralphellis1-VsqqI1RANlEsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Mon Aug 7 06:51:45 UTC 2006


I don't know if it could help but SpinRite is a program with a strong success 
rate with date recovery but you would have to connect the drive so some sort 
of IDE controller. See
www.grc.com
Good luck
Ralph Ellis

On Sunday 06 August 2006 2:39 pm, Jamon Camisso wrote:
> I've a friend who's Hitachi Travelstar has packed it in after 4 years of
> service. Of course he doesn't have a backup. The drive is unrecognized
> in both my external USB enclosure and in another laptop, leading me to
> believe that something is wrong with the power connection, and/or the
> internals themselves.
>
> This in mind then: does anyone on this list do 2.5" physical recovery or
> know of anyone who is reasonably priced who does? By reasonable I'm
> talking home user prices, not corporate datacenter, globally deployed
> swat team recovery experts. I'm talking a maximum of $500 or there is no
> recovery. A near impossible request, I know what the larger services
> sometimes charge.
>
> A grim situation, so TIA for any contacts of offers to help. I know of
> the large companies like CBL and Ontrack of course, google is useful,
> but... someone mentioned a downtown company a while ago (last year) that
> starts with an R, something like R-Tools, or RT soft? I can't remember,
> but they were reasonable and local.
>
> Jamon
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