- May 12, 2013
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From actual experience can anyone tell me if any of the recommended data recovery labs by Hard Drive Manufacturers like Western Digital for example, are worth the price paid, that is quality of delivery in terms of data retrieved, and percentage of data retrieved i.e. 10% 50% 90%?
Or Can you and I do the same job using the tools continuously suggested on this forum and others?
I'm assuming if a drive had a bad sector or two when the drive crashed that, that data will be unretrievable, however, can the rest of the data be retrieved and if so in what format - useable in Windows or just as a raw data format?
Do you know which and what tools they use to recover the data? Can an IT technician purchase / download these tools? Do they take out the platter and re-seat in a new Hard Drive? Do they repair the MBR or the VBS?
At what point do you send a Hard Drive away to one of these recovery labs? (my view is if the drive is physically damaged i.e the heads are locked in one position or cannot go across the platter, or when you cannot see the drive in CMOS and / or in Disk Management in Windows...)
Very curious about all this having suffered a catastrophic failure in terms of my data on my hard drive: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1674195/sata-hdd-160gb-failure.html which effectively has stopped me working having lost all my business files. Yes I should have backed up my data (but how many more users don't back up their data and I hope others seeing my plight will loom to back up their data asap) and had been looking at an online storage solution but we have rural broadband which is very slow, so that was effectively ruled out, plus the lack of decent highly experienced local support.
Or Can you and I do the same job using the tools continuously suggested on this forum and others?
I'm assuming if a drive had a bad sector or two when the drive crashed that, that data will be unretrievable, however, can the rest of the data be retrieved and if so in what format - useable in Windows or just as a raw data format?
Do you know which and what tools they use to recover the data? Can an IT technician purchase / download these tools? Do they take out the platter and re-seat in a new Hard Drive? Do they repair the MBR or the VBS?
At what point do you send a Hard Drive away to one of these recovery labs? (my view is if the drive is physically damaged i.e the heads are locked in one position or cannot go across the platter, or when you cannot see the drive in CMOS and / or in Disk Management in Windows...)
Very curious about all this having suffered a catastrophic failure in terms of my data on my hard drive: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-1674195/sata-hdd-160gb-failure.html which effectively has stopped me working having lost all my business files. Yes I should have backed up my data (but how many more users don't back up their data and I hope others seeing my plight will loom to back up their data asap) and had been looking at an online storage solution but we have rural broadband which is very slow, so that was effectively ruled out, plus the lack of decent highly experienced local support.
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