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Hard Drive Data recovery
« on: February 22, 2012, 05:58:26 pm »
Hey Guy's
Bit of a long shot - anyone had any positive dealings with data recovery - I've got 2 500gb hd's configured in raid and they've gone down. disks are spinning up but cannot access from the bios or sea gate tools.
Sent away to a specialist data recovery firm who have recovered the data and given me an option to pay up or they can send back the disks ( All notified up front )
Just wasn't expecting to have to shell out such a huge sum to get this done.
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Re: Hard Drive Data recovery
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2012, 06:30:02 pm »
Trouble with this type of work is that there are too few people/firms doing it. Our High Tech Crime Unit earn a fortune doing this privately using the skills thay have been trained in by the Police. Same as any specialist job and you just have to pay !
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Re: Hard Drive Data recovery
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2012, 06:40:34 pm »
Depends how important the data is to you... how much do they want £200?
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Re: Hard Drive Data recovery
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2012, 06:43:15 pm »
If the data is valuable to you then you'll be better off paying for it, from memory these types of services aren't cheap.

If it's a faulty controller, you should be able to swap that from an exact same working model without touching the discs.
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Re: Hard Drive Data recovery
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2012, 07:07:09 pm »
http://www.piriform.com/recuva

Try it but I think when its a RAID and depending on how its done its very difficult.

How did you have them set up?

If its a direct copy RAID 1 I think then Recuva might do it. Its very powerful and free.

I have a DNS-323 set up in RAID 1 and I think its very difficult to get the data back if both go.

Just out of interest, how did both go down? RAID is supposed to help but 2 to go down?

A tip is to use drives from different batch numbers so if the batch is faulty then you still have the other batch to fall back on.
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Re: Hard Drive Data recovery
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2012, 07:16:33 pm »
The company I work for have had success with these people based in Hereford:

http://www.xytron.co.uk/hereford-data-recovery.html

We have never tried a RAId configuration with them before though, I would give them a call and ask. As you can see they have alot of big name clients:

http://www.xytron.co.uk/client-list.html

HTH

Edit - apologies, didn't read your post very well - xytron have a free phone number you could always seek a second opinion
« Last Edit: February 22, 2012, 07:18:54 pm by AnSGTI »
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