So, my hard drive on my laptop died. It's doing the clicking/not spinning up thing. I tried the whole freezer thing, yada yada…basically, I know it's a mechanical thing and the only hope I have is to go to a data recovery service and get them to take out the data plates and put them in a new drive and recover the data. That said…I know that this process is expensive, but my data is important, and I have money. I am wondering just how expensive it is. I looked into it, saw some prices by the hour, and some "as low as !" prices, but does anyone have any "real" quotes? And if my hard drive is 80 GB and I only need maybe 5 GB recovered, will it cost less than getting the whole 80 recovered?
Just a note, I'm looking for dollar amounts, thanks everyone!
If it's clicking you can probably expect to spend over $1000 (US). Most places will give you a free quote before doing the work. My company uses a place called CBL data recovery. Check out the website. http://www.cbltech.com
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Amount of gb's does play a part in the price but more than anything, the actual attempt and there success of doing it is where it costs. What kind of files that are being retrieved play a big part too.
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If it's clicking you can probably expect to spend over $1000 (US). Most places will give you a free quote before doing the work. My company uses a place called CBL data recovery. Check out the website. http://www.cbltech.com
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