Data Recovery Ripoff

[geezer]

I would be quite interesting to hear Southbit's comments on this. But, I have also done something similar in the early 90's, and the drive worked long enough after that to backup the data.

 

[aybbleek]

Agreed. And that's the whole point. Is what these recovery specialists say just to scare you into not doing it yourself? I remember the days when we were told never to change a CPU at home and other such stuff. I think I may just buy some old 2nd hand drives and try repeat this a few times

This is what I'm thinking. Where in SA do you stay - I'm sure some forumites would be willing to donate HDDs for the cause

 

[Fulcrum29]

An old Seagate external drive with a USB connection. I think I bought it in 2008?

Yep, highly possible. I think 2008 might have been the last year to see these drives locally in circulation, especially with externals.

I have only really repaired two drives, personally. The one drive had the Seagate Firmware bug which I resolved with the method using an modded Nokia ca-42 cable, the commands and then to update the Firmware. This was an easy solution, and my cable have since helped many people. The other was in the older days, a Quantum Fireball, which made a motor noise, but didn’t spin up, also took the drive apart, put it back together again, it worked, but this was purely experimental and I didn’t have to recover anything, it died eventually.

I will never open a client’s HDD, rather have the specialists do their thing, peace of mind and an expected level of service.

 

[aybbleek]

Yep, highly possible. I think 2008 might have been the last year to see these drives locally in circulation, especially with externals.

I have only really repaired two drives, personally. The one drive had the Seagate Firmware bug which I resolved with the method using an modded Nokia ca-42 cable, the commands and then to update the Firmware. This was an easy solution, and my cable have since helped many people. The other was in the older days, a Quantum Fireball, which made a motor noise, but didn’t spin up, also took the drive apart, put it back together again, it worked, but this was purely experimental and I didn’t have to recover anything, it died eventually.

I will never open a client’s HDD, rather have the specialists do their thing, peace of mind and an expected level of service.

Remember having to do the Nokia ca-42 cable trick - I think it was a Chinese or Russian video on YouTube - life saver!