OT: 2.5" hdd data recovery

[John Myshrall]

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
>   
You may want to check out the drive manufacturers utilities.  I seen 
drives not boot up however as slaves they have been accessible.

John
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