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poppa kristof · Sep 10, 2003, 10:22 AM

Well my bosses hard drive in his ThinkPad failed. Dreaded click of death.
He was on vacation and left the computer on, so it died during that time and no one was there to shut it down.
I took it out of the ThinkPad and put it into my firewire enclosure to see if it would mount, nope, just clicks and stops.
Does anyone know of a good, trusted data recovery professional?
Not the software kind, but the ones that you have to send your media away.

Thanks in advance.

poppa kristof · Sep 11, 2003, 08:19 AM

Anyone?

romeosc · Sep 11, 2003, 09:00 AM

Originally posted by poppa kristof:
Anyone?

http://www.drivesavers.com/

These people are great, but not cheap! Good current backup is always cheaper!

Chris Grande · Sep 11, 2003, 11:36 AM

Backup! Backup! Thats all I have to say. I was bitten by a dead drive and it is not fun. I now backup every morning at 4am. People told me to do it when my drive crashed, I know it doesn't help after the fact but it will help in the future.

On the issue of a dead drive, maybe you will get luck and it is just the motor on the drive head, and the platters didn't get scratched or damaged. And data recovery is not cheap.

coolmacdude · Sep 11, 2003, 12:11 PM

As mean as it sounds, I have no sympathy for people who don't back up that lose data. It is elementary knowledge that the drive is going to fail eventually. If takes some data loss for people to realize that, it will benefit them in the future.

romeosc · Sep 11, 2003, 12:46 PM

.... also if you don't want to pay to have it retrieved, after putting it into the external case, give it a quick tap on the side. I have had several old drives that worked after that. (Sticktion (?) where the platter gets freed up. Then DO NOT RELY ON THIS DRIVE.... it is likely to fail again, but recovery is probable.