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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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
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I would suggest SpinWrite from Gibson&#39;s <a href="http://grc.com">grc.com</a>, works wonders on bad data.&nbsp; 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> &lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; 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>_______________________________________________
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</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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Long Distance charges to Washington State may apply.

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