On Thursday 14 May 2009 12:19:41 Samone E Jones wrote: > Does anyone have any good recommendations for hard drive data recovery. > We need to recover data from a laptop hard drive. > > Any good local suggestions (preferably) but I'll take any good > recommendations. > > Thanks, > > Samone > ANR Technology Services > 221 Ag Hall > 517-353-4890 I've had good luck with R-Studio (http://www.data-recovery-software.net/) for badly mangled disks. Their $80 version is fine when you have a computer that you devote to the task, and can hook the damaged disk directly up. So far, its the best tool that I've found, for general case problems. --STeve Andre'