Data recovery.

[UKJeeper]

I'm looking to find a decent and well priced hard drive data recovery company to extract files from a mullered laptop HD. Read heads completely gone, you can hear it. Forget slaving it, its not even see in the bios. Its going to have to be rebuilt in a clean room at this point. Its not mine, i've been trying to save it for someone else.

I know some of you have reason to use data recovery people. Any recommendations?

[Range Rover Blues]

If you can get hold of an identical hard drive you might find that swapping the control board outside the drive will do it, it's unusual for a goosed hard drive to be physically damaged, and if it was the disk or heads it would still show in the bios but you'd get errors mesaages about lost sectors or something.

[smo]

For gods sake dont keep powering it up, every time you hear those nasty noises the situation gets worse.

I have used a company in the past, excellent service and they ended up doing the full clean room jobbie on it too! Got it all back tho. I'll see if i can find their details.

[Cyberprog]

My recommendation is a company called RetroData run by Duncan Clarke, good personal friend and he's saved my client's collective asses many times.

www.retrodata.co.uk - very reasonably priced. Oh and don't go messing round trying different boards, you may kill things even more.

[Evilgoat]

Board swapping is generally a really bad idea as some information is held on the drive itself and some on memory on the board. You'll make things worse.