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

[Jeff Lightner]

I don't know of a local company - I used Pivar successfully years ago to
recover a dead Xenix drive for me.   They talk about conversions on
their web site but as I recall they have a clean room where they can
actually disassemble a hard drive to get data off of it.

 

http://www.pivar.com/convert/capabili/index.htm

 

 

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Van
To: ale at ale.org
Loggins
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:42 AM
To: Robert Reese
Cc: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] need recommendations for a good local company to
recoverdata off of a dead laptop hard drive

 



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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