best place (aust) for faulty hard drive data recovery ?

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can anyone recommend a company who can do this at a reasonable price,
or advise who NOT to use ?
 
"KLR" <kenreed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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can anyone recommend a company who can do this at a reasonable price,
or advise who NOT to use ?
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Try www.grc.com, they have an apparently excellent program called Spin Rite
for doing just this.

Leon Gross
Soundlabs Group Pty Ltd
www.soundlabsgroup.com.au
 
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:59:54 +1000, "Leon Gross"
<leon@soundlabsgroup.com.au> wrote:

"KLR" <kenreed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fdnon0hd0amf80hsr61omt65ik1g9mn8oi@4ax.com...
can anyone recommend a company who can do this at a reasonable price,
or advise who NOT to use ?

Try www.grc.com, they have an apparently excellent program called Spin Rite
for doing just this.

Leon Gross
Soundlabs Group Pty Ltd
www.soundlabsgroup.com.au

Thank you for the link, certainly looks good.
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Unfortunately in this case the drive wont start up at all and isnt
recognised in either dos or windows mode, so its a lot more serious
matter :(. The client has to have the data recovered however.
 
KLR wrote:
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:59:54 +1000, "Leon Gross"
leon@soundlabsgroup.com.au> wrote:


"KLR" <kenreed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fdnon0hd0amf80hsr61omt65ik1g9mn8oi@4ax.com...
can anyone recommend a company who can do this at a reasonable
price, or advise who NOT to use ?

Try www.grc.com, they have an apparently excellent program called
Spin Rite for doing just this.

Leon Gross
Soundlabs Group Pty Ltd
www.soundlabsgroup.com.au

Thank you for the link, certainly looks good.


Unfortunately in this case the drive wont start up at all and isnt
recognised in either dos or windows mode, so its a lot more serious
matter :(. The client has to have the data recovered however.
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Have a chat to this bunch - I haven't used them, but a mate reckons they're
pretty clever - he had a corrupted MiniDisk and they were able to recover
the audio.

Robert Harding
General Manager.
Harding Services t/a HDDRecovery Australia.
Tel:+61-7-33111400
Cell: +61 0410 557721
Fax:+61-7-38711432
www.hddrecovery.com.au
robh@hddrecovery.com.au
 
With what u describe, data recovery software cannot ever recover data on hdd
that cannot be power-up.

I have a copy of SprinRite, & it doesnt work, because the data on the hdd I
tried to recover is not power-up and definitely not recognised in the BIOS
too.



"KLR" <kenreed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:59:54 +1000, "Leon Gross"
leon@soundlabsgroup.com.au> wrote:


"KLR" <kenreed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fdnon0hd0amf80hsr61omt65ik1g9mn8oi@4ax.com...
can anyone recommend a company who can do this at a reasonable price,
or advise who NOT to use ?

Try www.grc.com, they have an apparently excellent program called Spin
Rite
for doing just this.

Leon Gross
Soundlabs Group Pty Ltd
www.soundlabsgroup.com.au

Thank you for the link, certainly looks good.


Unfortunately in this case the drive wont start up at all and isnt
recognised in either dos or windows mode, so its a lot more serious
matter :(. The client has to have the data recovered however.
Click to expand...
 
I have heard i-store (www.istore.com.au) have started to offer this service,
not sure on pricing though.

"KLR" <kenreed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:59:54 +1000, "Leon Gross"
leon@soundlabsgroup.com.au> wrote:


"KLR" <kenreed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fdnon0hd0amf80hsr61omt65ik1g9mn8oi@4ax.com...
can anyone recommend a company who can do this at a reasonable price,
or advise who NOT to use ?

Try www.grc.com, they have an apparently excellent program called Spin
Rite
for doing just this.

Leon Gross
Soundlabs Group Pty Ltd
www.soundlabsgroup.com.au

Thank you for the link, certainly looks good.


Unfortunately in this case the drive wont start up at all and isnt
recognised in either dos or windows mode, so its a lot more serious
matter :(. The client has to have the data recovered however.
Click to expand...
 
KLR wrote:
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:59:54 +1000, "Leon Gross"
leon@soundlabsgroup.com.au> wrote:


"KLR" <kenreed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fdnon0hd0amf80hsr61omt65ik1g9mn8oi@4ax.com...

can anyone recommend a company who can do this at a reasonable price,
or advise who NOT to use ?

Try www.grc.com, they have an apparently excellent program called Spin Rite
for doing just this.

Thank you for the link, certainly looks good.

Unfortunately in this case the drive wont start up at all and isnt
recognised in either dos or windows mode, so its a lot more serious
matter :(. The client has to have the data recovered however.
Click to expand...
Does the drive even try to start? It could be suffering from 'stiction'
- Conner drives used to have this problem - do a search for it. Usually
when the drive warms up it 'unsticks' itself and spins up.

Otherwise, in PCUser in the last year sometime there was a reader letter
recommending a guy in Melbourne who did HD recovery - he apparently does
a very good job and his prices were _way_ below what a normal recovery
business would charge. I can have a quick look through my mags if you like.

Dave
 
Dave wrote:
KLR wrote:

Unfortunately in this case the drive wont start up at all and isnt
recognised in either dos or windows mode, so its a lot more serious
matter :(. The client has to have the data recovered however.

Does the drive even try to start? It could be suffering from 'stiction'
- Conner drives used to have this problem - do a search for it. Usually
when the drive warms up it 'unsticks' itself and spins up.
Click to expand...
A bit more on stiction.

http://www.pcuser.com.au/pcuser/hs2.nsf/web/F7134141F921B4E0CA256AE6002D0054

Dave
 
On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:20:47 +1000, Dave <QBXVRAVCYLPD@spammotel.com>
wrote:

KLR wrote:
On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 09:59:54 +1000, "Leon Gross"
leon@soundlabsgroup.com.au> wrote:


"KLR" <kenreed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fdnon0hd0amf80hsr61omt65ik1g9mn8oi@4ax.com...

can anyone recommend a company who can do this at a reasonable price,
or advise who NOT to use ?

Try www.grc.com, they have an apparently excellent program called Spin Rite
for doing just this.

Thank you for the link, certainly looks good.

Unfortunately in this case the drive wont start up at all and isnt
recognised in either dos or windows mode, so its a lot more serious
matter :(. The client has to have the data recovered however.

Does the drive even try to start? It could be suffering from 'stiction'
- Conner drives used to have this problem - do a search for it. Usually
when the drive warms up it 'unsticks' itself and spins up.

Otherwise, in PCUser in the last year sometime there was a reader letter
recommending a guy in Melbourne who did HD recovery - he apparently does
a very good job and his prices were _way_ below what a normal recovery
business would charge. I can have a quick look through my mags if you like.

Dave
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The drive refuses to even spin the platter - its basically dead, with
no noise and no vibration etc. No mistaking this as tried a working
identical model from the clients computer and when it was powered up
and idle - the platter motor was quite audible

Have checked on the drive PCB at various places and the +5 and +12 can
be found in a few areas away from the 4 pin power connector so power
seems to be getting to the circuitry.

After a quick web search and a few phone calls finding wildly varying
(and mostly ridiculous) prices - found a firm in vic who would do it
for $550 if electronic only - but would be $850 if it also needed
clean room work on the internal mechanical guts.

Everyone was happy with this, and the drive has been sent to them.
Will post back the results if anyone is interested when the drive
comes back.
 
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