My IT department says my hard disk is broken and they anything off it.
Can anyone recommend a company who can recover the data from it.
I have dont a search in the internet but I have no idea who is reliable.

What does it do? does it spin up? is it making a knocking noise? does the computer see it? To be honest data recovery is very expensive and not very successful. Can you give any more info on what the drive does? It the computer cannot see it then it is possible that just the controller has gone down (electronics on it) if so then you may be able to swap the circuit board off an identical drive and try it again. If the heads have crashed and it is knocking then give up! You can always try keeping the drive cool by wrapping some frozen peas in a tea towel and putting the drive on it, that sometimes helps.

OnTrack do it, but it aint cheap. Cost near on several hundred for, me to get a 2 disk mirrored array recovered for a customer of mine.

Joel

Could also try Vogon International, www.vogon.co.uk, supposed to be the industry data recovery and compute fraud experts used by Scotland Yard etc. BUT THEY DO NOT COME CHEAP. And although they do claim to have a very high success rate, some years ago I came across a person who had used them to recover their hard drive but without success.

If previously suggested methods dont work, is the data on your hard drive really that imperative?

We have used Nova down in Attercliffe for some hard disk recovery - sometimes successful, sometimes not.

Litotes

Originally posted by Joelc
OnTrack do it, but it aint cheap. Cost near on several hundred for, me to get a 2 disk mirrored array recovered for a customer of mine.

Joel

This intrigues me.

I have a RAID 1, ie 2 disk mirrored set, on my home computer for saftey. It works. Power cuts etc it will boot perfectly and repair the disk that was currupted.

How did you manage to loose both drives?

I ask for infomations sake. Don't want to loose my wife's work.I back up to another internal and an external drive that I keep in a safe BTW

Power Surge, despite warnings, the customer was being too tight to buy a decent surge protector/UPS. He got a spike, wrecked most of the computer, and the boards on the disks were fried. On top of that, his backup solution was soley reliant on the RAID array.

Lessons to be learnt people.

Joel