Hard Drive Recovery Companies?

[Simcut]

Aye, ideally....I will do in future, my aim was to move to SATA Hard Drives and do backups every month to an IDE drive that I would connect up (when the power is off before you make any jokes lol)

[Babu]

I know the data recovery companies charge a lot for their work, in the end if this is the only way that you will recover your data then you have to do that. I learnt this lesson too, our unix box gave up the ghost a year ago and even though I had backups, the main boot floppy was corrupt! I had to pay a recovery company - Ontrack. The bill was enormous, however, we had no option but to pay - the service though was fantastic. I had the recovery within 2 days and was back up and running with a new server by the end of the week.

[Lord Nikon]

Originally Posted by Simcut

Hi all.

Whilst building my new PC I accidentally (like a complete idiot) left the PSU plugged in, and whilst plugging in a molex into ah ard drive it sparked.....now the hard drive is completely dead. I cant believe I was so stupid, I was excited in having a new PC up and running and forgot I hadnt unplugged it that time (I NORMALLY ALWAYS DO IT).

Anyway, to cut a long story short, I've tried reconnecting this Hard Drive and no power goes to it. I have so many important files on there including hundreds of mp3s, stuff that I've bought off online mp3 stores which I would have to purchase again, not to mention personal files and pictures.

Its a Maxtor 250gb IDE Hard Drive.

Do you guys know of any good companies who would be able to recover the data for me and any idea how much it would cost?

Thanks.

Simon

Know anyone who is any good with electronics? Get them to check near the molex connector for open circuit surface mount fuses, it could be something as simple as that

[Simcut]

I unfortunately dont know any of expertise in that field.