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makava
 Post subject: Recovery of a ST1500LM003 Hard Drive
PostPosted: January 16th, 2015, 15:30 
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Urgent.

I have Iomega Ego 1.5tb drive, which is a seagate ST1500LM003 serial #Z11081GH, from 1 day to next it stopped working.
I have sent the drive to a couple of companies to recovery the data but they were not succesfull, they tried changing the heads and hot swapping, but they couldn't get to passed that to reading the platters.

Is there anything else that can be tried, does anyone have any ideas, or any company I can try.

I have years of Data there without no backup (approx 1TB of data).

Thank you for your help
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lcoughey
 Post subject: Re: Recovery of a ST1500LM003 Hard Drive
PostPosted: January 16th, 2015, 15:44 
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Perhaps a list of the data recovery labs where you sent it would be helpful. This way we can have a better idea of their abilities and then determine if it is worth going further, or not. Also, what is your budget on this?

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makava
 Post subject: Re: Recovery of a ST1500LM003 Hard Drive
PostPosted: January 16th, 2015, 16:13 
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lcoughey
 Post subject: Re: Recovery of a ST1500LM003 Hard Drive
PostPosted: January 16th, 2015, 16:20 
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I'm not sure why you sent the list to me via PM.

Based on the 3 labs you sent it to, the odds of recovery by anyone else is low. If you were to send to a someone like jono-ats with the understanding that you will be paying him for his time and parts while he tries to work out a custom solution, you might get lucky and get your data back. But, you are more than likely throwing your money away.

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makava
 Post subject: Re: Recovery of a ST1500LM003 Hard Drive
PostPosted: January 16th, 2015, 16:29 
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lcoughey wrote:
I'm not sure why you sent the list to me via PM.

Based on the 3 labs you sent it to, the odds of recovery by anyone else is low. If you were to send to a someone like jono-ats with the understanding that you will be paying him for his time and parts while he tries to work out a custom solution, you might get lucky and get your data back. But, you are more than likely throwing your money away.


who is jono-ats?
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pcimage
 Post subject: Re: Recovery of a ST1500LM003 Hard Drive
PostPosted: January 16th, 2015, 16:43 
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makava wrote:
lcoughey wrote:
I'm not sure why you sent the list to me via PM.

Based on the 3 labs you sent it to, the odds of recovery by anyone else is low. If you were to send to a someone like jono-ats with the understanding that you will be paying him for his time and parts while he tries to work out a custom solution, you might get lucky and get your data back. But, you are more than likely throwing your money away.


who is jono-ats?


A well respected DR guy on this forum.

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makava
 Post subject: Re: Recovery of a ST1500LM003 Hard Drive
PostPosted: January 16th, 2015, 16:49 
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Thank you, so i will pm him.
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Dmitri
 Post subject: Recovery of a ST1500LM003 Hard Drive
PostPosted: January 16th, 2015, 19:13 
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makava wrote:
I have sent the drive to a couple of companies to recovery the data but they were not successful ...

Feel free to skip the particular names if necessary, but can you copy-paste their diagnostics results / post-attempt outcome descriptions?

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makava
 Post subject: Re: Recovery of a ST1500LM003 Hard Drive
PostPosted: January 18th, 2015, 12:41 
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Dmitri wrote:
makava wrote:
I have sent the drive to a couple of companies to recovery the data but they were not successful ...

Feel free to skip the particular names if necessary, but can you copy-paste their diagnostics results / post-attempt outcome descriptions?


they didn't provide diagnostics just that they couldn't recover.


I was told that these drives have special known difficulties being recovered, is that so?
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