Hard Drive Crash - Data Recovery?

[MiamiB]

I am sure that I am not the only one who has experienced this problem...hard drive failure. I need to find a company to get the data off of the drive but naturally being in the adult website business I want to deal with a company that has experience dealing with this sort of material...

Can anyone recommend a company who is "gay friendly" in this area??

Thanks for the help!!

[BDBionic]

Oy! That blows =\

Wish I knew of someone in FL who could do that for ya. I'm in CA and have done stuff like that in the past but not much I can do remotely.

[jonjayw]

What? No backup? :cry: In our business that's a critical day to day process that should never be forgotten or bypassed.

[Bec]

are you positive that you can't get to the data if you slave it to another computer with a good operating system?

[Gary-Alan]

Bec beat me to it.

I had a major crash a year ago and when I slaved the old drive to the new PC I was able to pull the data over. Since it was no longer the the boot disk, XP didn't read my registries the same way - which is where I got screwed up in the first place.

You may want to try this first.

My best,
Gary-Alan

[Lee]

If you are unable to slave the drive into a new machine another method of finding a data-recovery service would be to talk to your legal representative.

In most cases law firms usually have a company they use for this exact same thing and the firm they recommend should not only be a reputable one but, also trustworthy

Regards,

Lee

[gaybucks_chip]

Depends on if the drive has mechanical or electronic problems, or if you can't access the data.

If the drive when powered up with the ribbon cable attached will spin up and make the normal self-test sounds (You'll hear the head accessing and running through a positioning test) then you have a couple of options. If you either hear nothing at all or hear clunking noises, nasty scraping sounds, or repeated clicking sounds, you have a mechanical/electronic problem.

For non-mechanical or physical problems, i very heartily recommend downloading the free demo from runtime.org. A large percentage of the time, it will recover the data off of a bad drive... and it's completely non-destructive; it never writes to the damaged drive, it instead takes the data and copies it to a fresh drive. If the runtime software doesn't fix it, runtime itself will try and recover the data if it's a non-mechanical problem, and they're very inexpensive ($150/hr, usually 3-6 hours of time). I have used them, but not for adult material, however they're a very small company and I bet if you called and asked, they'd be OK with it.

For mechanical problems, there are a bazillion companies, and I have no experience with them. I do know that many of them will simply rip you badly because they can (as in, $7,000 for a job that takes a day and a half.)

Hope that helps!

Chip