I’m looking for a reputable data recovery service that has

  1. Highly Recommended
  2. Flat Fee
  3. No fee if no data recovered
  4. Quick Turn-around Time

Any opinions on this one, my spicy-friends?

4 Spice ups

they have never done me wrong. they dont charge if they dont recover the data, and their services start at around $500. Think they took like 10-14 days last time, but thats not too bad considering they are half a continent away from me.

2 Spice ups

We’ve used the following company on several occasions. But be prepared to pay depending on the size of the hard drive.

http://www.krollontrack.com/data-recovery/

3 Spice ups

I’ll second Carol’s post. We’ve had to use OnTrack for some clients while I was with IBM and they worked. It was NOT cheap though.

2 Spice ups

Thanks a bunch, folks.

I think we’ll put out feelers to Gillware and OnTrack to see what they can do.

just for the love, you all get the spice!

If you are looking to retreive deleted data from functional drives, I have had very good success with a program called GetDataBack GetDataBack — Data Recovery Software For Crashed Hard Drives

I have been able to recover not only recently deleted data, but data from previous Windows installations. The only thing I haven’t been able to recover using this were where the drive had been wiped with something like Boot Nuke. At $79 it’s a bargain.

The tech working on this issue tried something called Recoverer 2000 Pro, and was unable to find the partitions to recover any data, so I think at this point he’s wanting to take it past the tools/software level and go to the recovery service level.

For some reason, he seems to think a recovery costing $1,000 and up is too much. Back when I worked at Staples selling IT services, our 3rd part data recovery service started at that. To me $500-$1500 is completely reasonable.

With GetBackData you don’t have to be able to see the partitions. As long as you can see the physical drive you can pull data off it. For the $500 to $1500 price, most likely the recovery service will also use software. The other method, using an electron tunneling microscope to map the magnetic fields and recreate the data will run quite a bit more. That’s what the feds use to recover data from wiped or physically damaged drives.

I have used recuva free version to recover data from drives with deleted files, deleted partitions, I have even used it to rebuild a broken mirror (raid 1 set). Just the best for functioning drives.

I have used recuva for several clients of mine and worked well.

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