If you've decided that you really have no
alternative but to
recover data from a hard drive suffering from physical (mechanical or
electrical) failures, there are numerous labs having clean room
facilities that can possibly recover your data. Here's a few links
(we've not used these services, but have merely found these
sites doing a search on the Internet using keywords "hard drive
data recovery"):
One lab with which we have done business with,
and will continue to do so as a result of their excellent work
and close proximity to our shop is
The prices charged by these labs to recover your
data ranges approximately from $500 for a simple, logical
recovery process to $2,000 (or more) for a physical recovery
process involving head and/or hard drive motherboard
replacement.
These are but a few examples of hard drive
recovery services specializing in re-building hard drives in
need of parts in order to recover data from them. Recovering
data from a hard drive suffering from mechanical failures can be
pretty expensive, so prepare yourself for sticker shock! You've
got to really want this data recovered before going this route,
and have the budget ready to meet the expense. The
cost of successful data recovery involving hardware repair in a clean room can be as little as $1,000
or so, but can also reach into the
several thousand dollar price range!
If your hard drive is mechanically and
electrically functional, i.e., the platters are turning and the
heads can be controlled as with a "normal" drive, we can
possibly retrieve your data using software recovery techniques.
You'll find our prices to be very competitive. Send us an e-mail
explaining your problem, and we'll send you an estimate of
repair. Contact us at:
jimlillard@hls-systems.com
We can return retrieved data to you on either
your own repaired hard drive (if possible), on a new hard drive
of equivalent size to the one from which data has been
recovered, on a CD, DVD, or ZIP drive, or electronically
via e-mail or FTP processes.
Some steps to take that will increase the
chances of having your data successfully recovered from your
corrupted hard drive:
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Don't write any additional data to your hard
drive if you are aware of an impending or immediate hard
drive failure.
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Don't run ANY disk utilities such as "chkdsk"
on the malfunctioning hard drive.
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Don't run any hard drive defragmenting utilities
such as "Speed Disk," "Diskeeper," or "Disk Defragmenter" on
the malfunctioning hard drive.
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Do NOT reboot the computer. Shut it down,
then remove the drive from the system!
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Remove the hard drive from the PC and make
it available for data recovery operations.
If you've followed these guidelines chances are
good that we (or a lab of your choice) can recover most,
if not all, of your lost data through a logical HDD recovery
process.
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