Re: Is RMB2000 a rip-off for data recovery?

Hi Greg,

IMHO, a failure (power loss, reset etc.) during defragement is very unlikely to damage hardware. So using software to recover it is enough, and so the charge is a bit higher.

On 1/23/07, Grzegorz Jakacki <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A friend of mine lost data on HDD in a Vaio laptop, supposedly after
> resetting the machine during defragmentation. Friend took it to a data
> recovery shop, and they supposedly recovered the data, but they claim
> they had to move the medium to another similar unit under clean-room
> conditions etc., which does not seem consistient with the potential
> damage my friend might have done to this disk (also with the fact that
> they returned the disk and
> 
> They are trying to charge RMB2000 for the recovered data. Is this a
> reasonable price for such a service in Beijing?
> 
> Thanks
> Greg
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