All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]


Switch to mobile style


Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 76 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4  Next
Author Message
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 8:24 
Offline

Joined: October 13th, 2008, 7:29
Posts: 1492
coffeebean wrote:
See, All it takes is a good website and a New Age (feng shui) approach.

Gurus - it's game over for you guys - the newbies rule :mrgreen:


:lol: :lol: :lol:


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 8:26 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: May 7th, 2010, 13:20
Posts: 595
Location: United Kindgom
@HDD Spaz

Yea thats true- but taken out of context you should have put they they most probably mis understood me because their tech guys first language is chinese and hardly speak english. So i dont bother with them- even on the forums they dont understand.

I admit- it was the first recovery i did. and it kinda put me off the whole idea- but i fixed the next and then the next one and the one after that. then i made a deal with a few ppl and fixed a few more :)

Now i only try to break my own hard drives just to learn something.

_________________
It seems that the unluckiest people in the world are those that don't backup.
Free Solutions
Picasaweb- Pictures and movies | Dropbox - Documents and other..


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 8:35 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: May 7th, 2010, 13:20
Posts: 595
Location: United Kindgom
Marketing :)

I dont see Steve Jobs from Apple admitting to making a royal bols up of the Iphone 4!
'Just dont hold it that way' - Hahahaha

Any way- you presented the fact- my website was not listed in the google search- and yet im expanding my workshop soon. :) Just imagine i top up my adwords, tune my bid to £4 and sponsor a link. Hmmm. I wont because i cant handle all the other 'physical' damaged stuff yet.
I come across as a cocky son of a b. - and i most probaly am. Take a laugh at my website - i dont care im getting clients and im keeping your secrets tight with me. The only real problem started once i started outsourcing to other companies. Outsourcing sounds good- but it would be better to admit i cant do physical repairs than hanld eupset clients because soembody else takes a piss at their work an has no pride in what they do.
Most of outsourced clients are uspet with me. All my direct clients will give good feedback

PS Google is not the only the only search engine in the world ;)

_________________
It seems that the unluckiest people in the world are those that don't backup.
Free Solutions
Picasaweb- Pictures and movies | Dropbox - Documents and other..


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 8:40 
Offline

Joined: October 13th, 2008, 7:29
Posts: 1492
So you tell your clients you can't handle physical repairs? Why not outsource? just outsource to the right people.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 8:50 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: May 7th, 2010, 13:20
Posts: 595
Location: United Kindgom
4 months in - cant tell from right and wrong people? So far its half and half
but i guess thats the business i chose to be in - no real guarantess

I just got a HDD from somebody who gave it to PCWorld- them schamks took off the pcd- broke the spindles connector and cable and told him the data cant be recovered. But the drive was detecting in Bios before he sent it to them. Those are the people that need to be stopped, and i hear the same thing over and over about pcworld. Now i have to very carefull and try to see if they broke anything else. and its a 7 year old hdd. no spares.

What do you do HDDSPaz?You in DR, techie? or just retired and like chatting to ppl.

_________________
It seems that the unluckiest people in the world are those that don't backup.
Free Solutions
Picasaweb- Pictures and movies | Dropbox - Documents and other..


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 8:59 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: May 5th, 2004, 20:06
Posts: 2831
Location: England
ppumkin I would also suggest some English lessons if you are ever going to speak to your customers.

_________________
All went well until I plugged the drive in.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 9:01 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: May 5th, 2004, 20:06
Posts: 2831
Location: England
if one of them is "Cheadle Data Recovery " I will just ROLMFAO and then shoot myself to stop the muscle pain


ppumkin wrote:
Hehehe - i just live in cheshire :)

I get drives from the whole of UK :) It must be my competitive prices, nice looking webpage and the way i handle my cleints. :)
Im still learning by the way.. and after 4 months im already considering expanding my workshop :)

Any way - i work toehter with 2 of those people listed on what you wrote there. ;-]

_________________
All went well until I plugged the drive in.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 9:15 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: May 7th, 2010, 13:20
Posts: 595
Location: United Kindgom
guru wrote:
ppumkin I would also suggest some English lessons if you are ever going to speak to your customers.

I speak 5 languages - im sick of lessons- soon ill just employ some english lad or las to answer the phone and you wont need to listen to my strange accent any more mr guru. ;)

of- please dont call me know just to hea rmy accent. arrr

_________________
It seems that the unluckiest people in the world are those that don't backup.
Free Solutions
Picasaweb- Pictures and movies | Dropbox - Documents and other..


Last edited by ppumkin on July 20th, 2010, 9:18, edited 2 times in total.

Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 9:15 
Offline

Joined: January 8th, 2008, 5:21
Posts: 937
Location: uk
Out of curiosity I also decided to google data recovery cheshire and the first hit was PC Input which kind of explains why the Gurus round here get a bit annoyed with these type of threads.........a normal street with a semi detached house so there you go.


Attachments:
cbk.jpg
cbk.jpg [ 28.06 KiB | Viewed 8750 times ]
Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 9:17 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: May 7th, 2010, 13:20
Posts: 595
Location: United Kindgom
Thats funny

_________________
It seems that the unluckiest people in the world are those that don't backup.
Free Solutions
Picasaweb- Pictures and movies | Dropbox - Documents and other..


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 9:25 
Offline

Joined: November 9th, 2006, 15:15
Posts: 2991
ppumkin wrote:
The only real problem started once i started outsourcing to other companies. Outsourcing sounds good- but it would be better to admit i cant do physical repairs than hanld eupset clients because soembody else takes a piss at their work an has no pride in what they do.
Most of outsourced clients are uspet with me.


There are always going to be some cases that you find too difficult to handle, in this case you do not need to outsource but direct the client to someone you know can do the job. Surely the best thing is that client gets the data back?

And as for clients being unhappy, did you tell them you were outsourcing? Did you outsource them to someone who could actually do the job, or instead drop it off to the semi-detached house around the corner from you :lol:

Seriously though, if you are a genuine DR firm then most of your work will be physical so if you cant deal with it then either dont accept it or find a reputable company to outsource to. there are so many idiots setting up shop claiming they can offer data recovery, but in actual fact they only able to recover deleted data and damaged partitions, leaving all the rest filter through to those that actually are equipped to do those jobs. And most of those have been tinkered with by someone who 'wants to learn'!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 9:42 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: May 7th, 2010, 13:20
Posts: 595
Location: United Kindgom
Yea the dodgey corner house - haha
I must have sent one of the such a place- but never again. just filtering out the people. I have made a nice friend of this forum- he knows what hes doing and helped me out many times now.

And i did ofcourse let the client now where his precious data is. And they agreed to get reffered.Still had dissapointment with me though. butyou cant satisy everyone.

Well i am gutted i cant do physical repairs. im missing years of experience and its really depressing me. but where do you learn. nobody teaches these things- years of tinkering idiots turn out to become hdd gurus. unless you are born hddguru then apologies :)
Well i am determined to carry on and learn how todo it.

_________________
It seems that the unluckiest people in the world are those that don't backup.
Free Solutions
Picasaweb- Pictures and movies | Dropbox - Documents and other..


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 9:44 
Offline

Joined: November 9th, 2006, 15:15
Posts: 2991
ppumkin wrote:
unless you are born hddguru


This is very likely. some members here have a lifetime if knowledge!


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 9:48 
Offline

Joined: October 13th, 2008, 7:29
Posts: 1492
Just don't fubar anymore drives. Good luck.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 9:48 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: May 7th, 2010, 13:20
Posts: 595
Location: United Kindgom
heres a poll for you -who has more success at recovering data
pcworld - ?
cheadledatarecovery - ?

-owww, thats gonna get me in trouble...
hehe
on that note i gotta go do some work. this thread turned out to be quite interesting. kind of went of topic.. but still relevant.
Some nice facts in here -anybody care to conclude.

_________________
It seems that the unluckiest people in the world are those that don't backup.
Free Solutions
Picasaweb- Pictures and movies | Dropbox - Documents and other..


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 10:03 
Offline

Joined: October 13th, 2008, 7:29
Posts: 1492
I'm thinking PC World. :lol:


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 10:37 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: May 5th, 2004, 20:06
Posts: 2831
Location: England
PC Input from the pic is in fact "Data Chavs" the well known gold chain blinged up pro's.

They collect direct from your house (when your not home) recover your data to an Albanian gang and leave your house with open air windows

_________________
All went well until I plugged the drive in.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 10:49 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: May 5th, 2004, 20:06
Posts: 2831
Location: England
To finish this thread for myself. I do not own a data recovery company , I just work for one kinda . Even after a decade+ of experience (circa 23,192 hours working on hard disks so far) I don't fancy going it alone.

If your young, no kids, no mortgage and no wife then give it a go :O) good luck

I'm outta here :O)

_________________
All went well until I plugged the drive in.


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 20th, 2010, 12:54 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: July 12th, 2010, 4:38
Posts: 1364
Location: Portugal
ppumkin wrote:
Yea the dodgey corner house - haha
but where do you learn. nobody teaches these things- years of tinkering idiots turn out to become hdd gurus. unless you are born hddguru then apologies :)
Well i am determined to carry on and learn how todo it.



Totally agree. :agree: :agree:

_________________
http://www.pclab.com.pt facebook.com/PCLAB.A.T
ACELab partner


Top
 Profile  
 
 Post subject: Re: Starting Data Recovery Business - need suggestion
PostPosted: July 21st, 2010, 21:11 
Offline

Joined: June 21st, 2010, 21:20
Posts: 11
Location: Canada
Well guys, it seems we'll need to open a forum for hddnewbies :)
Like you guys, i'm looking for tips on data recovery but it's difficult to get some help from gurus (must say, not all of them)
It's been 6 months that i'm reading a lot and testing, but i'm still a green for sure.

I must say that I understand the gurus. If I owned my data recovery company and knew that one of the fellas in my neighborhood is likely to start his own data recovery company, I won't be available to help him for sure. That is competition.
But why don't help people in other country when the competition doesn't exist? I know they probably worked hard to gain the knowledge, but I'm willing to buy this knowledge to gain some time, if someone is interested in giving some knowledge, pls PM me.

I think the best for newbies is to pulled together and exchange what we know (links, tips, secret). That way, we'll learn faster than alone. What ya think?


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 76 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2, 3, 4  Next

All times are UTC - 5 hours [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: Google Adsense [Bot] and 81 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
Powered by phpBB © 2000, 2002, 2005, 2007 phpBB Group