[ale] need recommendations for a good local company to recover data off of a dead laptop hard drive

[Van Loggins]

Hey Robert,

Unfortunately I don't have an identical model drive to switch the controller
board out for.

I did try the drive in a 2.5" laptop drive to USB enclosure that I have and
was unable to get it to initalize, basically the drive is not spinning, so
it may be controller board failure or the drive motor am not sure, I'm
afraid to mess with it too much, I want to make sure that the data can be
recovered.

I am hoping that a data recovery company can get the info off the drive. The
guy who owns the laptop has several progams on there with important data
that if he can't get them back it will cost him more to have the company
replace them than it would cost for him to get the drive recovered and then
have the company help him get the moved programs back up and running again
on his new drive. I don't know the specifics for the programs, just that
they have something to do with his company which does construction work, I
think it's some sort of architectural estimation software or something
similar.








On 2/21/07, Robert Reese <ale at sixit.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Van,
>
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> On 2/21/2007 at 6:48 PM Van Loggins wrote:
>
> >I have a client who spilled milk on their Dell latitude D610, laptop
> >survived but the hard drive died, it appears that the drives controller
> >board got wet and caused the drive to die.
> >
> >I know that the laptop is ok, have already replaced the drive with one
> >from fry's electronics, but they have data that they need from the
> >original drive for their company.
> >
> >Can anyone recommend a good local company for data recovery?
>
>
> I haven't tried swapping the controller board on laptop harddrive, but
> frequently it's easy on a 3.5" drive.  You might want to try swapping the
> board with an identical laptop harddrive before investing serious money in a
> data recovery effort; a Dell replacement drive would certainly cost
> less.  Also, have you tried plugging the dead drive into another laptop or
> ide controller?
>
> Cheers,
> Robert Reese~
>
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