Ah, the "no guarantee" probably means they'll just try to put the drive
in another disk caddy or machine and use an off the shelf recovery package if they have to. Frankly, I wouldn't get your hopes up... The pros use all sorts of clever things to get data off your HD, which is why they cost so much; but they'll recover every undamaged bit.
Posted By: BerlinCanary on October 19th 2009 at 16:53:25
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- iMac hard drive busted = 190.35 (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 19, 16:10:33
- That's not a bad price if it includes fitting and data recovery (n/m) (General Chat) - Ben, Oct 19, 16:30:58
- really!!? Don't feel so bad now then (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 19, 16:34:09
- That's a *fantastic* price if it includes recovery (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Oct 19, 16:33:39
- as i recall (i was bored by him) 1.40 per "gig" (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 19, 16:35:48
- Ah, the "no guarantee" probably means they'll just try to put the drive (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Oct 19, 16:53:25
- c'est la vie (n/m) (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 19, 16:55:41
- Ah, the "no guarantee" probably means they'll just try to put the drive (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Oct 19, 16:53:25
- as i recall (i was bored by him) 1.40 per "gig" (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 19, 16:35:48
- ?190 to replace a hard drive? (General Chat) - scruffy, Oct 19, 16:19:14
- no, includes data recovery and a bigger ard drive apparently (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 19, 16:25:13
- You could do that yourself with a boot cd (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 19, 16:31:26
- That's what the OS X CD is... (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Oct 19, 16:31:50
- yeah, could do it with parted magic, and boot the system from the ram (General Chat) - pants, Oct 19, 16:34:24
- no i couldn't (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 19, 16:37:02
- yeah, could do it with parted magic, and boot the system from the ram (General Chat) - pants, Oct 19, 16:34:24
- That's what the OS X CD is... (n/m) (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Oct 19, 16:31:50
- "Data recovery" - oh dear!!!!!! (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Oct 19, 16:28:38
- my mrs fault (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 19, 16:30:49
- Yebut, they might also find your "photos" (n/m) (General Chat) - CB41, Oct 19, 16:31:32
- my mrs fault (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 19, 16:30:49
- You could do that yourself with a boot cd (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 19, 16:31:26
- no, includes data recovery and a bigger ard drive apparently (General Chat) - Tombs, Oct 19, 16:25:13
- And that's when you realise, this is going to change everything (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 19, 16:17:23
- That's not a bad price if it includes fitting and data recovery (n/m) (General Chat) - Ben, Oct 19, 16:30:58
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