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So, I’m curious. How many people have had to send drives in for data recovery to places like DriveSavers, Kroll OnTrack, etc? Where did you send it? What was wrong with the drive? How much did it cost? Anyone have any data recovery failure stories?

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I’ve never had to send one in, but last I checked it’s thousands of dollars for a “maybe”. Never had a customer want their data back so bad after a crash that they were willing to pay that much.

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Same here, I’ve heard of around a thousand up to ten thousand. Recoveries were likely, but always a maybe.

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Thousands. The equipment is not cheap to do proper recoveries.

And that is contingent upon whether it is determined that a recovery is possible.

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I used a company in DC that didn’t charge unless they got data. It was going to be about $8K, but they weren’t able to recover it. They tried for almost a week.

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I would like to recommend Kernel for Windows Data Recovery Software for your data recovery requirement for hard drive or from FAT and NTFS file system.

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I’ve sent a few drives into DriveSavers over the years. Price varies pretty widely depending on the drive type and the actual issue with the drive. Nothing recent so my memory is a little rusty… I know one was a 500 gig SATA drive that was clicking. It was around $1500 I think and they recovered everything. The one that I really remember though was a RAID 5 set of 3 SCSI drives from a clients server. Two drives died and his backup hadn’t been working for over a year. It was a bit over $10,000, but they got everything back.

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Done it a few times from http://www.dataretrieval.com. It was usually because of a head crash. It is expensive but there is a lot of room for negotiation. Talked them down from $1,000 to $500 for a 500GB drive. All data was recovered. Try Testdisk/Photorec first.