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Been there done that a couple of years ago. Depending on the drive, data
recovery may or may not be possible but you can be guaranteed it will be
expensive. I checked out a sh*tload of those recovery services and
you're basically giving most of them a license to steal your money. I
ended up sending mine to the people at http://www.eco-datarecov.com/.
Two reasons....
1. They were the only ones willing to take a look at the drive for no
charge other than shipping.
2. They were the only ones willing to give me a firm quote ($1000) to
recover the data if it could be done.
That sounds expensive but the way the open-ended contracts of most of
the others are worded, they can charge you 2 or 3 times that amount and
you won't know how much until they are done. You're going to pay them
something to even look at it and, after quizzing them on the phone, it
became clear that I would be very unlikely to get them to do any data
recovery for less than $1000. "Well we might have to do this or we might
have to do that blah blah." Their "cheap" quoted price is only good if
they can replace the external circuit board and get it to go. If they
have to open the drive in the clean room, bend over.
Turns out my WD drive was totaled when the heads scraped the platters
and all it cost me was 2-way shipping to find that out. I was quite
happy with the service. Now I do regular backups. :-)
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Dennis
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