Drive Recovery: Recommendations
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Seagate does data recovery, but it's not cheap.
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@scottalanmiller said:
There is always the "put it in the freezer" method.
Would you admit you tried?
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Not I. No.
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I've used Lazarus. It was several thousand.
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<waves>
There it goes.... be a few days before I hear back I"m sure... I hope to have better news.
Thank you for the suggestions on the process. I know may have done a recovery,.. I haven't had to.
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Good luck!
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How bad is it .... really?
Your current status: Clean Room Diagnosis 10/3/2014 16:43*
The Initial Evaluation results indicate that, due to the complexity of your data loss, your hard drive requires the attention of a Clean Room Engineer. Our Clean Room Engineers will apply advanced technologies to attempt to make your hard drive readable.
It' been in the clean room since the 3rd,.. Seven business days.. Makes me a bit concerned ,.....
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Maybe they are just busy and have not gotten to it yet.
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Finally got the report
Good files: 18,293
Good bytes: 8.10 GB
Repairable files: 55
Repairable bytes: 9.41 MB
Partial files: 3,860
Partial bytes: 24.95 GBAnything below good is unlikely to be recovered. Just about $1500 for it and the recovery drive.
Now to see if they want to go this route.
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$1,500 of less than 10GB of data. Ouch.
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@scottalanmiller
Included is $99.00 for the drive they would put the data on,.. but still - I don't know how that really compares. It appears though that they may opt out of the recovery. Will have to see. -
@g.jacobse said:
@scottalanmiller
Included is $99.00 for the drive they would put the data on,.. but still - I don't know how that really compares. It appears though that they may opt out of the recovery. Will have to see.$99? For a $4 USB stick?
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Think it's a external hard drive
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@g.jacobse said:
Think it's a external hard drive
That's foolish. Costs more, has no advantage and doesn't ship as well. That's $95 of "ripping you off".
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Ouch that is pricy.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@g.jacobse said:
Think it's a external hard drive
That's foolish. Costs more, has no advantage and doesn't ship as well. That's $95 of "ripping you off".
They are stuck in the past.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
They are stuck in the past.
Like..... the 90s?
In tech, that's ancient!
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@Dashrender I mean are we really suggesting that they are stuck in the 90s rather than ripping him off?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender I mean are we really suggesting that they are stuck in the 90s rather than ripping him off?
Sadly - Yes. It's probably a combination. But they haven't looked at updating their process. They are an HD recovery factory. They want to deal with HDs.
Also, it's probably pretty rare for someone to only have 8 GB of data they want/need recovered. While as long as it's less than 128 GB, they could still go with a memory stick pretty easily, I'm sure they don't want to maintain multiple stocked devices.
