I am stuck as a fair chunk of my work is isolated in a RAID0 hard drive and I have been quoted in excess of £1.5k to retrieve data which is over the top(!) Wonder if any one of you know someone who could rescue data on a hard drive or could do it - I am happy to pay for it to be retrieved but there is a large gap between the quote above and the one I have in my budget...
Any signposting or assistance would be truly appreciated!
Ta and here's to the Posh game ...
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The problem could stem from one or more of many possibilities, best let techies deal with it. I'm in IT but we get a firm to do data retrieval for us who also service domestic customers. Around €90 on average and the data should be given to you on DVD.
I Googled "hard drive recovery London" and plenty came up to get quotes from, or send it over in a double padded envelope and i'll get it done here in Dublin.
It's highly unlikely that both disks have failed (if they have, then it's more likely to be a controller failure - which would be much easier to resolve - just replace the controller), so depending on what you need to recover, you might be lucky. If your files are smaller, there's more chance they'll be written entirely to one disk, rather than spread across both. You could try taking the working disk(s) out and shoving them in another machine on a different sata connection (or preferably an external caddy). If the files are large, you've got no chance of getting them back other than via a data recovery service I'm afraid. I haven't had to use one of those for about ten years (you only ever lose important data once, trust me!) but they weren't cheap when I did have to use them. I'd suggest the figure you've quotes is expensive, but without a reference point (how much is the data worth to you, what's the market rate for retrieving it etc) I couldn't be sure. Why don't you shop around?
Great to know that this site is here to assist. Cheers.
Anyway have a look here download.cnet.com/windows/ for some options and customer reviews. Your choice obviously - I'm making no recommendations and have no experience of this product although I do use Easeus backup stuff and it's a bit quirky but seems to do the job.
The only experience I've had with this was on a home use only level. My external hard drive was overheating and I couldn't get the data off before it crashed. As a last resort I wrapped the drive in a plastic bag and placed in the freezer for a few hours. Then i connected up to my computer and the drive worked. Each time the drive remained alive for around 15 minutes and I was able to get some data off before it crash again. After repeating this process a number of times I was able to get all my data of the drive.
Cheers, SA