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