[geeks] HD data recovery recommendations?

[Mike Hebel]

On Friday, April 9, 2004, at 10:45 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:

> I've got a Hitachi (e.g., IBM) 160G IDE drive (formatted UFS+ under OS 
> X)
> that won't spin up.  Anybody have recommendations for data recovery 
> services,
> and what it costs nowdays?  There's about 30G of data on the drive 
> that we
> need.

I think the only one with any reliability is Ontrack.  They've been 
doing it for years but they still offer no guarantees unfortunately.

> (this is for a friend that I do consulting work for..)

If their prices haven't changed he may not be your friend after he sees 
the recovery price tag.  :-(  Last I checked they were something 
insane... *googles*

As I suspect - they have a "Request a Quote" button:

http://www.ontrack.com/labdr/

Mike