Hard Drive Salvaging

[Sirius]

Any idea how much it costs to get info salvaged from a hard drive that apparently has some kind of error with the tracker or motor device and therefore can't read info and just makes 1 second interval click noises

[Tibro]

im guessing that would depend on who you took you PC to. Taking it to a huge international PC firm will ofcourse cost more than giving it to the village geek to do for virtually nothing.

try asking anyone you know personally if they can do it..

[Jeansi]

Cost 1000 € for me, dunno tho, it's probably 500-2000€ depending on what kind of damage.

[cundor]

Cost 1000 € for me, dunno tho, it's probably 500-2000€ depending on what kind of damage.

Why would you pay that much money?????
buy a new one?

[Mr. Peanuts]

People can have valuable work and stuff.

[Jeansi]

Yeah, the work I had on it was worth far more than that. And I didn't get the hard drive back, I just got the info of it.

[Nockm]

AFAIK they charge something like per megabyte of data. And it is fucking expensive too. (Wonders what data Jeansi recovered)

[Rab]

tip: backup your work.

just get a microdrive or something and drag shit onto it at the end of each day.

[Darkmoor]

Indeed, remember backups and you don't have to worry about this. RAID is another solution, HDD's are quite cheap nowadays so it doesn't cost much to have a small RAID array.

[suxxor]

RAID arrays work the best when they're fairly redundant and made of inexpensive disks. :english:

[ConcreteSchlyrd]

I get it--that's funny.

[Jeansi]

I asked for another hard drive from the company but they said no. Then I asked for a zip drive / dvd writer or something else that I could backup stuff on but they were afraid I'd steal stuff if I saved it on portable storages.

[Sirius]

For some reason time appears to have impact on it. If I leave it turned off for about a day then it'll work after that for about 10-15 minutes, at which point I transfer some of the information off of it onto my laptop. Then it freezes up and starts clicking again, so I leave it off for another 7-8 hours then it starts working again and I repeat the process.

[Jeansi]

overheating problems?

[Sirius]

I would think so too, but I don't see why it would. There's no fan in the hard drive case in the first place, right? So what would malfunction and cause it to overheat, not to mention that the clicks it makes every half a second when it breaks is claimed to be bad sector issues on websites etc.