[OT] Hard drive recovery

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> A cooleague of mine's hard drive is fried, and she's looking for
> organisations than can recover the data from it.  Is anybody aware of
> services which are "not too expensive"?

When someone reinstalled Windows on a laptop not realising that it
had unique work on it I used knoppix to dd the drive image to a box of
mine and grovelled through it with this.
    http://www.notatla.org.uk/SOFTWARE/file_recovery/index.html
It's not pretty but in a few days I had some of the stuff.

A recovery company asked about £120 for an initial look to be followed
by a quote for real work if it looked possible.