Broken Drive

[jamesb21222]

Today, I was working on a machine. I took the hard drive out to test it in a different box. I had it sitting on my desk, and I was nailing something on the wall and accidently dropped a hammer onto it breaking a couple chips off of the board. I know that was a stupid idiotic mistake.

So the board is toast. I attempted to switch boards with the same model drive, but bios wouldn't pick it up. It spun up and clicked like all drives normally do.

Is there somewhere I can send this drive to have the data recovered off of it? I'd really like to have it back...
preferably somewhere that wouldn't cost an arm and a leg

[Nude_Lewd_Man]

Should we take it that you didn't/don't have a backup for whatever was on there, or wasn't this important data..?



This actually reminds me of a discussion that we had at my work, were a customer said that they had backups and gave us the go-ahead to syswipe their storage (which, for good measure, we did twice) before they came back and advised that they didn't have a backup after all......

i365, A seagate company, has data recovery services.

I've seen Ontrack do impressive things.

I haven't used any of these myself, as I have a proven backup strategy and also (multiple, off-site) DR replication for my schtuffs - important and otherwise....

[de_day]

Yes, I agree. There's nothing like a backup and with the low cost of even terabyte USB drives you can easily image a whole drive before beginning work.

Those recovery places can do wonders, but it has to be precious data because it isn't cheap.