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Sitara
Solar Flare Trade and Production
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Posted - 2011.12.09 18:52:00 -
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So - my sister brings back the PC I built for her 3-4 years ago - refusing to boot.
She also brings the external HDD I got her to buy for backups - empty.....
Turns out the PCs HDD is toast - from the symptoms it looks like read / write head failure.
So - needing a recommendation for a good, reasonably priced UK based data recovery service - I've had one quote which came in -ú100 (+ -ú400--ú500 if the recovery is a success) - and I think + VAT - seems a tad high to me.
Anyone recommend somewhere a bit cheaper - or is that what its going to cost to get some/all of their photos back ? |
Astrid Stjerna
Teraa Matar
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Posted - 2011.12.09 23:52:00 -
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Sitara wrote:So - my sister brings back the PC I built for her 3-4 years ago - refusing to boot.
She also brings the external HDD I got her to buy for backups - empty.....
Turns out the PCs HDD is toast - from the symptoms it looks like read / write head failure.
So - needing a recommendation for a good, reasonably priced UK based data recovery service - I've had one quote which came in -ú100 (+ -ú400--ú500 if the recovery is a success) - and I think + VAT - seems a tad high to me.
Anyone recommend somewhere a bit cheaper - or is that what its going to cost to get some/all of their photos back ?
That's pretty much it -- a lot of places will be signifigantly more expensive, depending on how serious it is and whether or not they have to ship it out. My (non-profit) workplace lost its main data-server last week, and the estimate for repair was $1500-$2200 Cdn (including shipping to Ontario and back, from the West Coast of BC).
We just made a new server and restored from a backup. |
Midori Tsu
Evolution
The Initiative.
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Posted - 2011.12.10 05:50:00 -
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That offer is a deal, data recovery isn't the easiest thing to do. |
leviticus ander
The Scope
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.12.10 09:56:00 -
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what are the symptoms that brought you to that conclusion? and did you give your sister a backup strategy and teach her how to implement it? if not then there really wasn't a point in convincing her to get an external HDD for it.
other than that. ya, that is a really good price. I've heard of it going upwards of 20k for bitstream recovery of the data on the failed hard drives. |
AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
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Posted - 2011.12.10 15:21:00 -
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Knoll Ontrack
Worth every penny and I think Thames Valley Police HQ use them to recover incriminating data.
AK
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Sitara
Solar Flare Trade and Production
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Posted - 2011.12.10 18:34:00 -
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AlleyKat wrote:Knoll Ontrack
Worth every penny and I think Thames Valley Police HQ use them to recover incriminating data.
AK
Thanks AK - I'll get a quote from them too. |
Othran
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
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Posted - 2011.12.11 00:12:00 -
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Sitara wrote:AlleyKat wrote:Knoll Ontrack
Worth every penny and I think Thames Valley Police HQ use them to recover incriminating data.
AK Thanks AK - I'll get a quote from them too.
Your current quote is about average, I doubt you will get a significantly better deal from a reputable company.
You will be looking at several hundred quid (best case) to recover data from a disk where the heads are dead or the head servos are dead.
I don't consider that unreasonable.
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