harddrive broke, anyone know a cheap data recovery firm

[kylefoley76]

my harddrive is broke, i have an apple. anyone know a cheap data recovery firm? the companies that i've talked to so far are charging real outrageous prices, 800$. i'd like to find someone for 300 USD

 

[kylefoley76]

ok, i read at this thread that i might be able to do it myself but i'm not sure. does anyone think this is possible. recovery your own data from a broken harddrive?

http://macosx.com/forums/archive/t-309258.html

his technique is freezing the harddrive for six hours. but i don't see how to connect the old hard drive to the computer when the space for the harddrive is taken up by the new one.

 

[toddscott]

You can try that technique, I have seen videos of it working although I have never tried it myself. I think the best implementation of the idea is to put the harddrive in an external usb/firewire enclosure and put it in the freezer, then route the cables out of the freezer after the six hours to the computer that is sitting by the freezer. It is worth a shot. Enclosures can be had for under $50.00 US.

 

[diddi]

i bought one of these:

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.30843

it connects sata/ide/ide2.5 drives to usb directly. it has saved my skin a couple of times in only 2 months. the dealer is secure. i have spent 100s and the shipping, whilst slow is free (but you can pay for fast)

using these sort of tools is way cheaper than getting an enclosure and much more flexible. even does laptop drives as well as desktop.


there are several good file recovery options which i can recommend by PM