Hard drive info recovery

[jhelgesen]

Probably have a fatal hard drive failure on my desktop machine at home. Best I can tell its a head crash, 3 clicks and it turns off. Does anyone have recommendations for information recovery services that won't break the bank.

[anotherblack944]

I don't know if your problem could be related but, just saw this?

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/zd/20090122/tc_zd/236238

"Seagate Issues 'Bricked' Drives Fix,

- Seagate Technology appears to have finally issued firmware fixes for all of its "bricked" hard drives, the company said in a support document update apparently issued Thursday. ..."

[Seahawk]

I didn't know Harddrive was in recovery. Thanks for the info.

Must have been the post about the 2010 Honda Fury that caused the "crash".

Godspeed, my friend

[slodave]

I can help. PM if you are interested.

[HelmetHead]

Depends on what is wrong with the drive....i've had NTFS failures...used NTFS recovery to get back the data....if the drive is failing..i've heard of freezing it overnight to get the data off (my buddy tried it..and got about 50% of his data)

From my understanding of the data recovery guys...they open up the drive and first they try to replace the circuit boards to see if they can get the data back..if that fails, they remove the platters in a clean room and put them in other drive frames....very costly from my limited exposure to these services.

Good luck!