[TriLUG] OT: hard drive recovery

[Amnon]

I used Recovermyfiles last week.  The drive was not recognized by the OS (xp) so 
I very carefully FDISK'ed it, and formatted it, YES, it took a lot to do it :-) 
and then the recovermyfiles program, recovered all the files the customer had on 
it previously.  So when they say that a drive is not erased when you do an fdisk 
and format, believe it !!!

Another one is getdataback, which claims to recognize drives that are not 
recognized by the OS.

Both are commercial products, less than $100.00, and you can download a trial 
copy to see what it will find, before spending the money.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shawn Hood" <shawnlhood at gmail.com>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 8:51 PM
Subject: [TriLUG] OT: hard drive recovery


>I have a 80GB Seagate SATA drive out of a MacBook.  It's  has decided
> to start clicking.  It has a couple of years worth of photos and
> documents on it.  I may seek out a recovery service -- DriveSavers has
> quoted me 500-1800 based on success.  Has anyone had success with any
> less expensive companies?  I'm not complaining about 500, but 1800 on
> the high end is a bit steep.
>
> Shawn