I have a 80 GB Hitachi ATA drive (used in an Inspiron laptop) which has a mechanical failure. (This was diagnosed by Frys in the SF Bay Area.) They recommended I send it to Drive Savers.

My questions:

1) Has anyone dealt with Driver Savers? What was your experience like?

2) Could anyone recommend a different data recovery professional?

Thanks

There are a few in CA. I think there is a recovery guy from Cypress, CA here in the forum. May be check with him!!!

My experiences with Drivesavers are good, though as a top-tier commercial recovery firm you'll be paying top-tier prices.

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

I would strongly recommend thatdellguy, he is in SF area, very professional and has super reasonable prices.

You can find him on this forum:
western-digital-help-t11727.html

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www.datarecoveryne.com

Didn't realize that's where he was located. I'll add to the recommendation.

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You don't have to backup all of your files, just the ones you want to keep.

We got a case 2 years ago wich goes directly DS , the client send to CA Seagate 500GB , but unfortunely they left like Unrecoverable Head Mask,all the time they did head swap and head mask still´s knocks, so i dont know their sucess,

I would also recommend thatdellguy

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Interesting that you mention my location as SF. I got a strange voicemail from someone wanting to know when I would meet them in SF. But were not located in SF. I figured it was another telemarketer...

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Buy your friends Toshiba\Hitachi and your enemies Seagate.

I must suggest you a professional forum-spamming company named Restoringdata Inc in Canada.They are offering Hard Drive Killing, laptop data erasing, data extermination. Don't visit their website restoringdata.ca for more information.

I'm tired of SEO companies making fake posts just to gain links for their clients. If it isn't a real referral and the company is not contributing to the forum, they don't deserve the link back to their company website.

I keep deleting posts on my company forum from users with Indian IP addresses. I even had one user post an entry from IP 125.63.74.101 and several hours later someone with at IP 125.63.74.115 posted the response linking to a company sight that only is talked about from Indian IP address. (I won't mention the company name, but they are stellar with forum spam.)

Sorry for the rant.

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Luke
Recovery Force Data Recovery

You are so utterly transparent in ramping up your own interests that you probably have the IQ of a mushroom.

A common field mushroom to boot.

Why do people like you continue to propogate???

Erm, first post?

Blatent plug from a desperate spammer!

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I like the updated posting. Perhaps I should do the same on my company forum...it seems that they went back and posted on my company forum after posting on this one.

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Recovery Force Data Recovery

Hello HDDGuru Forum,

We would like to genuinely apologize for the comment that aspire01 left before. We have been already notified about a similar message that he posted on another site.
We immediately made sure that this spamming was stopped. We highly respect this forum and its users and apologize again for the frustration.

ReStoring Data

somebody help me pleasezz..my laptop are in trouble..my laptop cannot starting the windows. I don't know what is the error.. when i switch on the laptop, the command box will appear to fix the problem. so i let it to fix that, but nothing happened. So what should i do now?

I used to know several techs from Drivesavers and I would recommend most of the guys in this topic over them.

Drive Savers is pretty decent DR company
You also can try our i365 lab in Santa Clara, CA - I sent you exact location

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