NSS: Recovering Data from a Hard Drive: Total Cost: $50

[eSDee]

So I did the stupidest thing a couple of weeks ago. I was transferring a hard drive from my old computer into my new one, and I had not backed up the old hard drive since January(it held my My Documents folder). As I was putting the hard drive in the new computer, I didn't see that there was a screw jutting out of the middle of the bay that I was slipping it into(a serious Dell engineering flaw). The screw broke off a component on the controller board on the hard drive. I was like "****in **** ****** ****er!!!!!". Not because of the stupid dell manufacturing error, but because I told myself a bunch of times that I should have backed it up first but did it anyways.

At any rate, I found a company online that said they could replace individual components on the controller board instead of having to open it up and try and recover it that way. I sent it, and just got it back with all the data still on there. Total cost was $49!

Not so **********in' Suckage! :D

[Kim]

Cool! I'm glad you got your info back!

[xsiled2]

thats pretty cool, im sure they make some decent money on that as people prolly do that a lot.

good for you mang:D

[eSDee]

Thanks a lot :D

[Joshua]

I think they should charge more. (Not that I wanted you to pay more) but this is a very valuable service and not too common. I'd have happily paid over $100 for it.

[eSDee]

Originally posted by SnotRocket
I think they should charge more. (Not that I wanted you to pay more) but this is a very valuable service and not too common. I'd have happily paid over $100 for it.

Well that's true, which is why I have tremendous respect for this company. They also specialize in data recovery, which as you know starts at a couple of hundred bucks(atleast). I am not sure exactly how they turn a buck because initially they were only going to charge me $12 for the component that I broke off. They ended up having to replace a couple of little components(most likely because I tried to solder the piece back myself first and probably shorted something out) and so the grand total was only $50.

By the way, the company's name is Comp Disk (http://www.compdisk.com/). In case you know anyone who has a problem similar to mine, I give them 5 outta 5 stars! :D

[randyored]

That was cool. Sounds like they only charged you for the hardware and labor. Great that they didn't need to "crack" the drive case, so to speak.

Check out the prices when recovering data from a failing hard drive when they have to break the seal.

http://www.compdisk.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Services.Recovery