Hey guys

I'm coming back to Brisbane for a few weeks and am thinking about bringing home an external HD that has all my music/photos/movies, etc on it. A few weeks ago the drive just stopped being recognised on any machine - Disk Management can see there is something there, but it is just labelling it as unpartioned space. I have had a friend take a look at it, and while he had some success extracting the data from it, all of the file/folder names have been corrupted and have just come out as complete gibberish.

I am getting a few quotes over here in London, but the absolute cheapest I can find will be approx $250 + shipping when you convert it from pounds. Are there any good places in Brisbane that people could recommend? Alternatively, is there anyone on here who is an expert in this field and would help me out - of course I would be happy to pay you for this.

Cheers!

I've met/trained/worked with a few Qglers who are good at this:


hunt down:


- Dodgym0n
- GazG
- Galant56k
- Power


we go thru a company that shifted ops to Sydney for this stuff. I'm pretty sure the guys @ Computer Alliance still give out vouchers to regular customers to get a cheap deal on this kind of work.

the last I heard, the guys @ Quantum (that old Qgl sponsor who're on the main page) have an IT company that do this stuff but I dunno if they do Qgl 'specials'

last edited by koopz at 01:41:31 29/Oct/08

data recovery is expensive:

everytime ive investigated it, ive given up due to costs :(

give rstudio a go and see how it goes

for $250 its a bargain

I once got quoted $2k for the clean room treatment
I ended up chucking it in the freezer for a night and whacked it in the PC the next morning, fired it up and away she went
only lasted 45 minutes but it was enough to do a complete dump of the contents onto another drive

from that point onwarsd I've always raided any drives containing sensitive stuff (photos/etc)

I ended up chucking it in the freezer for a night

Please explain?

GetDataBack for NTFS has earnt me good monies over the years
if the drive spins up and can be recognised by bios and doesn't have the click of death, i always get data off the drive.

Please explain?

shrugs i dunno, i read it on the internets and it worked
something about cooling the platters down and shrinking etc

oh and put it in a plastic bag before putting it in the freezer too
circuit boards dont like water

The old IBM death stars used to like it in the freezer.

I'd suggest take the $250 offer. We do it at work, but you'd be expecting a bill an order of magnitude larger than that.

what spook said, rstudio is awesome - used it to recover the data from a low level format and although some of the file names were 'mucked up' it got back... 95% of what I wanted.

$250 is very cheap, Clean room here is thousands not hundreds.