[ILUG] [OT] Data recovery from a damaged hard drive

[Liam McDermott]

well, data recocery can be dam expensive.

from this site 500-2000 for a harddrive.

http://www.datexeurope.com/hddatarecovery/hddatarecovery.htm

On 7/8/05, Niall Walsh <linux at esatclear.ie> wrote:
> On Friday 08 July 2005 10:42, Niall O Broin wrote:
> > On 8 Jul 2005, at 10:06, Sarunas Vancevicius wrote:
> > > I opened it up and the hard
> > > drive is damaged. The cover is smashed to the inside.
> > >
> > > Any one know places where they might attempt to recover something?
> >
> >The good
> > ones are very expensive, but what's the data worth? However, if the
> > drive is physically damaged to the extent that the platters have been
> > touched, I'd say you're on a hiding to nothing.
> 
> My undestanding of these things, mainly from reading information about the
> reverse scenario of where you want to destroy the data , is that it takes an
> awful lot of work to make all data on a drive unrecoverable (afair US
> military emergency destruction involves acid while regular destruction
> obliterates the drives by explosion).   The exact amount of damage done would
> determine what sort of recovery techniques might work (like simply swapping
> the platters to a new chassis) and hence the cost so as Niall O B said you
> have to determine just what the data is worth and how much you are willing to
> gamble on trying to get it back (the data you really want could be the one
> thing you might not be able to recover, or all you may lose is a few
> programs).
> 
> To everyone still reading remember ... backup, Backup, BACKUP!!!  And don't
> forget to get a backup off-site in case the next visitors torch the place on
> the way out.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Niall
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