Data recovery

[Steff]

On 3 September 2010 10:56, Mike Whiting <mail at mikejw.co.uk> wrote:
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> Hey guys,
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> Can anyone recommend any good data recovery services?  My friend dropped his external hard drive and now it seems to have become my responsibility to 'fix it' because some of my bands songs are on there.  I'm not sure what exactly is wrong.  The drive seems to gets noticed but that's about it.  I suspect if there's anything that can be done with it at all it would involve removing the platter and rehousing it.
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> Any insights appreciated.

A firm called Vogon used to be the (very expensive) gold standard.
They appear to have been taken over by Kroll and turned into this lot
http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.co.uk/

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