> Users drive makes a grinding noise, so I donıt 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. > > > Iım 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