I sent a drive in to Gillware (http://www.gillware.com/) a while back and was pretty happy with the results. With the academic discount, it cost a little over $600 out the door, as I recall. On May 18, 2010, at 12:23 PM, Joseph M. Deming wrote: > Are there any hard drive restoration services on campus. The > down-and-dirty kind involving clean-rooms and actual dismantling of > hardware? I suspect not, heck of a delicate and technical service, but > I am about to recommend something to a user who forgot to do their > backup, and I'm afraid he's not going to like the costs involved. Any > suggestions, on-campus or good experiences elsewhere are welcome. > > To be clear, this involves hardware that will not spin up. > > I feel this has been asked before, but I searched the archive and failed > to find anything... sry =( Found 'Data Recovery Service' from 11/08 and > entertaining discussion on Freezing, Dropping and Hitting hard drive > with mallet, but no useful names or places of businesses still in > operation. > > - Joe