Well, the IT guys gave up with no success. They think the read head is bad & my only option is a recovery service that can actually remove the disk & read it with another device. Any further advice?
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Well, the IT guys gave up with no success. They think the read head is bad & my only option is a recovery service that can actually remove the disk & read it with another device. Any further advice?
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Put a smiley after you say that Bub.
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That sucks man.You can tell when a head goes by running defrag. You can see a band of blocks missing. Was he able to see the drive at all? If he wasn’t there’s a possibility that it’s a corrupted fat table. If that’s the case then a recovery service might be able to fix it with out to much trouble.
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'Puter won't even recognize the drive. It's an external Maxtor but they removed it from the housing & tried to run it as an internal.
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Yeah, that sucks man. You might have to send it in to a place like OnTrack (http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com/). It all depends on how much this data is really worth to you now. I am pretty sure a data recovery house will be pricey.
Bart
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Wedding pix so I'll have to bite the bullet.
I was trying to call data sniffer but all the techs were busy.
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I would call OnTrack and see what they say. Maybe they have better rates for the average person. The company I used to work for in Chicago used them all the time and we always had 100% success rates, but the cost was like $1500-$2500 depending on how much data was recovered.
Bart
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OUCH!!!
It's a 330 Gig drive but I only had about 30 Gigs used. Can they be selective in the data recovered. I'm only interested in the jpg files.
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