Unofficial Tex Murphy

I think one of the new drives I just bought was a Seagate one... *gulp*

Well I've had a quote - they say there's a low chance of recovering anything and if they recover anything at all the full price is payable. The quote is £1000, or AUS$ 1750.

So I'm thinking it's worth chalking down to experience.

Oh no that's terrible news David. I just got a replacement hard drive from Western Digital. I think my last drive that failed was a Maxtor.

That quote sounds a bit steep to me and Baf, who gave me the heads up about it and suggested another option for you:

If you are able to explain the exact symptoms of the drive to me, noises it made when it died, etc... I may be able to get a quote from the folks who did my recovery here. But bare in mind that if it is a mechanical failure (i.e. the platter drives or the servo arms are dead) then you will find it probably does cast as much as you were quoted, because they have to dismantle the drive and transfer the data platters into a new casing, which has to be done in a special "clean room" and is very time consuming.

However, if it is a result of corrupt data sectors, and all the mechanics are fine then you may have a good chance of recovery, but at a much cheaper price as well.

when you got quoted did they look at the drive or was it based on what you explained to them?

-Cub. =o)

I recently bought 2 new HDs. One is an upgrade, and the old one and the other one will allow me to have a backup set at home and another at another location so that I in case my apartment burns down, most of my data will be safe.

Apparently there is a physical problem in that the heads are touching the drive when they shouldn't be. If they've scratched it then apparently all data will have been lost, but it's not something I can access easily. I'm going to take it to a relative's friend in May to look at and with luck they can get things back but if not then it's a hard lesson learned.