Laptop hardrive dead, now what?

[Sn00zE]

Hi guys/gals.
I have a laptop here with a 60gig hd that just died a few weeks ago, acer replaced the hd with a new one and sent me the broken one back. This is a work laptop and there is very important data on there. A backup was done but its a few months old. So i have to do data recovery on it.

Can anyone point me to a company that can do data recovery for me, no matter what the cost. Just need to get it recoverd!

Give me a website, number, name.. Anything!

Thanx
Me.

 

[guang]

Go to Genex in Milnerton,they don't do it,but they have connections.www.genexct.co.za

 

[scotty777]

hmmm...well go to the yellow pages: look up data recovery

 

[Khyron]

I had the same problem some time ago.

I managed to find an adapter that allows you to connect the laptop hard drive to the IDE interface of a desktop PC. For some strange reason that worked just fine, and I was able to recover my data. The drive would however not start up when placed back into my laptop . After I installed a new hard drive into the laptop all was well again.

 

[evilspinach]

I've done the same as Khyron as a first stop, except it was an external USB drive case for 2.5" drives. Out of 6 or so dead drives, only one was truly "dead".

 

[Sn00zE]

I had the same problem some time ago.

I managed to find an adapter that allows you to connect the laptop hard drive to the IDE interface of a desktop PC. For some strange reason that worked just fine, and I was able to recover my data. The drive would however not start up when placed back into my laptop . After I installed a new hard drive into the laptop all was well again.

Aahh, that is an idea.. Will do that! Thanx, if it works could save allota cash. If not off to data recovery it has to go..