Click Click...Pause...Click CLick CLick (repeat) I Kill you!!!!!!

[Mount Cyanide]

Alright, I have a fully malfunctioning hard drive.
Corksucker!!!!!!!!!!
It's a Storcase, my first since swearing off EZQuest after the same damn thing.
So, I've got a whole ALBUM -- almost finished -- on this thing.
Not loopy crap, not midi crap, but full-on live irreplaceable performances (drums, violins, cellos, guitars, flutes, clarinets.....)
All musicians already paid and everything.
I know that I'll be 100% succesful in recovering everything.
The question is WHERE?

Any one know a great, excellent, superb, perfect data recovery company in the Los Angeles area? The best bro, the best.

By the way, good evening to all.
AAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

[dkatz42]

Not to kick you while you're down, but it's unbelievable that you don't have a complete backup. For the price you're going to pay for data recovery, you could buy a pallet of hard drives to use as backup (I just paid $40 for a 160GB drive, after rebates.)

Drive quality has very little to do with the name on the outside of the case; inside they're pretty much all Western Digital or Hitachi or Seagate, and those are the bits that fail.

[Mount Cyanide]

You're absolutely correct.
And, ouch, you got me on the back of the head!!!!!

Any company recommendations?

[borism]

I saw this in a Macaddict ad, xpensive thoug

http://www.diskdoctors.com/
http://www.drivesavers.com/

Good luck I know how you feel

[T9c]

Originally Posted by borism

I saw this in a Macaddict ad, xpensive thoug

http://www.diskdoctors.com/
http://www.drivesavers.com/

Good luck I know how you feel

Yeah, those guys are expensive. I used disk doctors a few years ago. The bill was $1250. They managed to fix the drive too, somehow. I didn't use it afterthat though.

I don't know of any less expensive places, and if you're in a hurry, it's gonna be even worse.

Good luck, man.

[Jnr]

there are programs you can use from dos prompts that can get the data from a broken disc over to a clean disc, i had the same thing happen to me in the middle of my final year at university a good many years ago, i managed to recover most of the files i needed for my portfolio.
This is an option you can try if you find the prices companies charge a bit much.

[Geert van den Berg]

Originally Posted by Mount Cyanide

Alright, I have a fully malfunctioning hard drive.

Is it a hardware malfunction, disk doesn't spin up, or do you get errors while reading the drive?

If it's not purely the hardware and you're on the Mac then you should give diskwarrior a try.

http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/

(SIDENOTE, I SEE NOW THIS POSTS DATES BACK TO APRIL, THE DATA MUST SURELY BE RECOVERED OR LOST BY NOW...)

[Amy]

What and where is a good place to buy hardrives for reasonable??

[Dysanfel]

Originally Posted by Amy

What and where is a good place to buy hardrives for reasonable??

Newegg.com - Computer Parts, PC Components, Laptop Computers, Digital Cameras and more!

I have been a faithful customer for years without a single problem.

[pjplayer]

if the drive is ****ed trying to access it ****s it more, so only fire it up when totally necessary (e.g. if you want to try and copy the contents to a good drive).

[357mag]

Provantage has prices that are better or equal to Newegg. Plus their shipping is faster.

[psycho_monkey]

Originally Posted by pjplayer

if the drive is ****ed trying to access it ****s it more, so only fire it up when totally necessary (e.g. if you want to try and copy the contents to a good drive).

+1 - if it's worth salvaging, bite the bullet, kick yourself for not having a backup, and get the pros to sort it.

[Mount Cyanide]

Wow. A ride on the time machine.
This was 2 1/2 years ago.

I actually did the lunatic recovery method:
Pulled it out of the case, sealed it in 6 Ziploc freezer bags
and, you guessed it, froze that byich for 24 hours.
I recovered EVERYTHING!!!!

Cost me only 5 bucks
(and a full sack of swollen testicles.)