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On 10/06/10 15:41, l duynslager wrote: > > Users drive makes a grinding noise, so I don't want to experiment > putting it in the freezer or something like that, I believe the > best plan would be to send it off to a recovery service to > minimize physical damage to the platters. > > My past experience has been good with OnTrack but they are very > costly $1200 or more for an 80 gb drive. > > > I'm curious if anybody out there recently had good luck with a > less expensive drive recovery service? Did anybody pay less than > $1000 / $750 respectively for similar results. > > Thanks, > > Lee Duynslager > Nope -- data recovery is always expensive, measured in the cost of used cars. Last time I couldn't deal with a disk it cost about $4000, but I didn't see the final bill. Ontrack is pretty good. --STeve Andre'