DigitalFusion

I just got my estimate from the data recovery company for getting my data back off my hard drive (freelance web developer here). They want 1500-3000 to recover it! FAWK!



Sigh... so much for finishing my turbo any time ths year.




[Modified by CustomCockpits, 5:39 PM 6/11/2002]

John_R

Teach you not to back up. Go to http://www.netmass.com Its an online backup... Like you can choose what to back up, etc. Then have them send you CD's of your entire backup whenever you like. Its monthly service. But it would have saved you a LOT of money. You run RAID? Might want to look into that also, but I don't know how your disk got fried either. Good luck.





[Modified by John_R, 5:53 PM 6/11/2002]

falcongsr

how are they restoring it? what was the method of failure. sounds like they're screwing you.

DigitalFusion

lol.. i did have back ups! I have a 10 gig back up hard drive.

To make a long story short:

-old windows files on backup drive wanted to get rid of
-moved all back up files to primary drive
-disabled primary in bios
-formatted backup drive
-re-enabled primary in bios
-no boot...

This is what the recovery company said:

"1500 to 3000 to design and implement custom pattern recognition software to retrieve files in used and unsued clusters of the date drive. " and "Loss of file identifiers in subdirectory definitions"


sigh

GSRwBOOST

sorry man.. i feel for you.

HEre at work people ask about getting soem stuff off their drive.. and it's like tons of money for what they want.. so we dont do it..

add it as a secondary drive in antoher system and see if you can read the data...?

falcongsr

what? it sounds like a ripoff to me. i would try the drive in another computer.

pattern recognition software...wow that some BS RIGHT THERE.

there are a dozen other things to try, like putting it in another computer and booting from that PCs main drive and then accessing your drive.

b18b98

try to do a search on computer forensic tools or something. you might be able to find a demo or something that might help.

DigitalFusion

i called drive savers... after giving them my sob story, they are waving the base fee (so if they arent able to get anything after they try, or are not able to get any of the specific files i ask for, there is nocharge at all) They are also giving me 10% off the economy service which is a 5-7 day turn around instead of the standard which is two day.

So if they are able to get all the specific files i ask for, as well as anything else, it will NOT go over 1800 bux no matter what... it could be as low as 525!

CovertFI

maybe you can some how claim it on your insurance!! well i doubt thoes bitches never pay up even when you have a ligit claim.

DigitalFusion

did that.. found some demo software as well as a (whispering) pirated(/whispering) software.. i was able to recover some stuff, but it was all old crap i dont even care to get back.

CovertFI

so the drive does work! i did not fail? there are several companies that make software to extract data. there will be no folders just raw data files.

DigitalFusion

fawk! they dont have a payment plan!! i dont have shiat for available balance on the cards! damn car parts! lol

01ITR#700

Here, call few more data recovery companies. Talk to Drive Savers, Reynolds, and Action Front, tell them Mark from Maxtor referred you and they may hook you up...
HTH
M

Reynolds Data Recovery
Phone: 1-800-223-7483 or 1-303-776-7110
Fax: 1-303-776-7277
http://www.data-recovery.com

DriveSavers
Phone: 1-800-440-1904 or 1-415-382-2000
Fax: 1-415-883-0780
http://www.drivesavers.com

EcoDataRecovery
Phone: 1-561-691-0019
Fax: 1-561-691-0014
Toll Free: 1-800-339-3412
http://www.eco-datarecov.com

Ontrack Data Recovery
Phone: 1-800-872-2599 or 1-612-937-5161
Fax: 1-612-937-5815
http://www.ontrack.com

ActionFront Data Recovery Labs Inc.
Phone: 1-800-563-1167 or 1-877-DATAREC (328-2732) or 416-510-6990
Fax: 1-800-563-6979 or 1-416-510-6992
http://www.actionfront.com

YeuEmMaiMai

you need to try a drive recovery software like norton. sounds like you formatted your c:\ drive

CovertFI

you work for Maxtor? we use to use thoes drives but they broke too much. not as much as fujitsu. probly 10 out of 50 fail!! with in a year

01ITR#700

Yup, I work at Maxtor. Most of our drives are pretty good and relatively sturdy. I just wanted to try and help this guy out with some possible name dropping They won't have a clue who I am at those Data recovery centers but they all recently visited us here on site so they generally hook our customers/friends etc. up right after visits
M

done

their as to be a way, wihtout paying that much... you cant fix yourself?

DigitalFusion

Whats funny is I have had this maxtor backup drive for about 4 years and no problems.. I have had two Western Digital drives fail in thsoe same 4 years.. one was a read head, and this one thats god only knows what.

I will call those other places and see, I dont wanna seem like an ***, but did u tell me to tell them that mark from maxtor told me to call to get a referral or anything did you? do u think they will really hook me up?

GSRwBOOST

i'd say unless you absolutely cannot do without the data, it's chalked up to a lesson learned...

do you have any of it on backup?

cd/tape??

01ITR#700

Yeah, just say your buddy or friend or aquaintance MArk over at Maxtor suggested you call them for a good deal and that I said they do good work. They all literally did onsite visits in the last month, so Maxtor is fresh in their minds and they will generally hook you up.
Good luck.
M

technine

why don't you just reinstall windows on top of everything in the primary.

And next time maybe you should just use nortons ghost before you do anything like that.


[Modified by technine, 7:22 PM 6/11/2002]

DigitalFusion

absolutely HAVE to have the data back.. there is serval thousands of dollars worth of work on there.

DigitalFusion

it wont even install to it.. i tries to start to, then says i have to reboot computer, and does the same thing over and over again

MoBlack

Boot your computer using a windows 98 boot disk.
Change the primary to be a slave (or auto).
Change the backup to be a primary(or auto).
Set up the bios/mb to accept the new drive config.
Install 98 on the backup drive.
Then use 98 to access the data on the primary drive.

HTH

oh yeah, that will cost you $0.00, unless you want to help me sell my F20C

MoBlack

Edit: had the f*cking order wrong... sheesh


[Modified by MoBlack, 12:17 PM 6/11/2002]

Xerxes

what company was this? I have an old 1gig drive that has some data i'd like to get, but i don't want to spend an excessive amount. The data on the drive is perfectly fine, but the ******* motor is worn out and won't spin up! (old quantum drive with the "sticktion" problem)

-Xerxes