[Cialug] Hard Drive Crashed

[Tom Pohl]

I hear really good things about spinrite:
http://www.grc.com/intro.htm

-Tom

On Feb 6, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Nathan Stien wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I have a 20GB laptop drive that has started knocking really loudly at
> boot, and it's got valuable data on it.  Most likely a head has gone
> bad.
>
> I was wondering if anyone had a favorite data recovery service
> company.  They have to be savvy enough to perform hardware surgery on
> the drive.  Money is indeed an object, so low prices are good prices.
>
> I googled around and have called some companies for price quotes,
> including adrdatarecovery.com and acsdata.com.  I'm looking for advice
> from people who have actually gone through this.  If there's an
> Iowa-based company that does this, so much the better.
>
> I doubt I have the testicular fortitude to attempt someting like this:
> http://www.hackaday.com/2005/11/17/hard-drive-resurrection/
>
> My biggest objection to the above method is that how would you align
> the platters after you move them to the new drive enclosure?  It seems
> more than slightly impossible.
>
> Anyways, thanks in advance to anyone with some tips for me.
>
> - Nathan
>
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