Re: Is RMB2000 a rip-off for data recovery?
"Ralf Pieper" <[email protected]> Sat, 3 Feb 2007 08:55:43 -0800
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--===============0412655632== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_26837_7608258.1170521743891" ------=_Part_26837_7608258.1170521743891 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I would suggest SpinWrite from Gibson's grc.com, works wonders on bad data. I used it many years ago to low level reformat HDs without much trouble, still today it is a great piece of software, abut $80 if I remember correctly. On 1/22/07, 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 > _______________________________________________ > blug-general list > [email protected] > http://list.beijinglug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/blug-general > -- Skype: ralferix Tel: 360 215-5250 Call me and ask me how you can get your own free phone number at http://ipkall.com and connect it to a hard phone. Long Distance charges to Washington State may apply. ------=_Part_26837_7608258.1170521743891 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I would suggest SpinWrite from Gibson's <a href="http://grc.com">grc.com</a>, works wonders on bad data. I used it many years ago to low level reformat HDs without much trouble, still today it is a great piece of software, abut $80 if I remember correctly. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Grzegorz Jakacki</b> <<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi,<br><br>A friend of mine lost data on HDD in a Vaio laptop, supposedly after<br>resetting the machine during defragmentation. Friend took it to a data<br>recovery shop, and they supposedly recovered the data, but they claim <br>they had to move the medium to another similar unit under clean-room<br>conditions etc., which does not seem consistient with the potential<br>damage my friend might have done to this disk (also with the fact that<br> they returned the disk and<br><br>They are trying to charge RMB2000 for the recovered data. Is this a<br>reasonable price for such a service in Beijing?<br><br>Thanks<br>Greg<br>_______________________________________________ <br>blug-general list<br><a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br><a href="http://list.beijinglug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/blug-general">http://list.beijinglug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/blug-general </a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Skype: ralferix<br>Tel: 360 215-5250 Call me and ask me how you can get your own free phone number at <a href="http://ipkall.com">http://ipkall.com</a> and connect it to a hard phone. Long Distance charges to Washington State may apply. ------=_Part_26837_7608258.1170521743891-- --===============0412655632== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ blug-general list [email protected] http://list.beijinglug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/blug-general --===============0412655632==--