Re: Data Recovery - Local Company

You might check out Spinrite. While I have not tried it, I have heard
some good things about it if you would like to try to recover the data
yourself. I believe the cost is $89. Below is a search result for it
with some reviews and articles:

http://www.retrevo.com/search?q=spinrite&sub=Search

Fred

Steven Longenbohn wrote:
> Here is a company we have used many times
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> They're good and reasonably priced
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> Let them look at your drive before you try too many times to read it.
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> We had one drive we tried and tried and by the time we took it to them,
> the disk was toast.
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> On Balance, Inc.
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> 2591 North Main
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> Walnut Creek, CA
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> 925 256 4199
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> Hours
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> Week days 9:30 -6:00
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> Saturday 11:00 -4:00
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> Costs: $90 for evaluation. If they cannot get any data off, your cost
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> If they can, they say the typical cost is around $240.
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> They can provide the recovered contents on CD-R's.
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> Larger hard drives may cost more. Let them quote you.
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> Steve (DrSteve) Longenbohn
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> Infrastructure Services - OneIST
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> University of California, Berkeley
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> 2195 Hearst, 300B
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> (510) 812-0256
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> *From:* owner-micronet-list_at_lists.berkeley.edu
> [mailto:owner-micronet-list_at_lists.berkeley.edu] *On Behalf Of *sgrettenberg
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2007 11:13 AM
> *To:* Richard Lafayette
> *Cc:* micronet-list_at_listlink.berkeley.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Micronet] Data Recovery - Local Company
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> Richard,
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> Local data recovery?
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> For decades, Novato's *Drive Savers *http://www.drivesavers.com/contact.html
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> have been one of the best in the world. They are not cheap. They have
> recovered data from drives half melted by fire. They have their own
> programs, and take platters off into drive mechanisms for recovery. It
> might be worth playing with the drive and programs first yourself - as I
> said, these folks aren't cheap.
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> Quality of data recovery companies and prices vary immensely.
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> Good luck...
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> Stephen Grettenberg
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> On Oct 2, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Richard Lafayette wrote:
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> I am in need of a good data recovery company. I'd like to use a local
> company if possible. If anyone has used a local recovery company;
> please send me as much info as possible.
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> Thanks,
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> Richard
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> <ral.vcf>
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