(Yet another reason) Why I Hate Windows

[vu pham]

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 15:53 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Rick Bowers wrote:
> <snip>
> > I left that company (not by choice) and stored the drive. Two years 
> > later, the assets of that company were acquired and I went to work for 
> > the new company.  None of the old stuff had been transferred over (or, 
> > apparently, preserved) so I took out my backup. It won't spin up. 
> > Period. So all that data is sitting on a dead drive. Now I need to 
> > recreate everything from scratch, where possible. I won't be buying any 
> > more Western Digital drives...
> > 
> > ~Rick
> > 
> 
> Is it not true that there are these disk drive recovery places that can 
> literally remove the disk and place it into their lab drives and recover 
> files?  I understand that they are not cheap but your data may be very 
> valuable.

Last year a client had a notebook with the bad hard drive, which has
some very important data to him. He asked me to look for somewhere to
recover it. It is a Dell notebook so I asked Dell first and they
recommended a list of companies that have those recovery services. I had
one in Dallas to do it, and they recovered the whole drive. If I
remember correctly, they moved the plates of the bad drive to another
hard drive of the same model, and it costed him about $2500.

Vu