| Posted by onelifeonelove, 09-08-2007, 09:09 AM | | I have 100+ sites on this hard drive, and one site in certain that meant the world to me.
My host sent the drive to Gillware first, but they failed saying that the file system was so severely damaged that they could not recover anything.
Then shortly after, my host sent it to DriveSavers, a very well-known company, but they also FAILED.
I'm extremely depressed because of this. Please don't post if you're going to say "make sure you do backups next time" because I've heard it 504329504395 times now, and while I do realize my mistake, saying that does NOT help me.
I am willing to spend ALOT to get my sites back. I still have hope. Are there any other companies out there BETTER than DriveSavers? Assuming that you'd still have hope even after two companies failed, where you would you go or what would you do?
Thanks in advance.
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| Posted by sirius, 09-08-2007, 09:49 AM | | Moved to Technical and Security Issues....
Sirius
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| Posted by onelifeonelove, 09-08-2007, 11:02 AM | | Thanks sorry for posting in wrong area.
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| Posted by grandad, 09-08-2007, 12:00 PM | | Don't know where you are - these people helped me ... no fix, no pay.
TDRS
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| Posted by onelifeonelove, 09-08-2007, 01:35 PM | | Thanks for the recommendation, but their site seems to be down
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| Posted by omega36, 09-08-2007, 01:37 PM | | It's online for me, you can try email them here as this is the address they have listed for enquiries: enquiries@tdrs.co.uk
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| Posted by grandad, 09-08-2007, 01:38 PM | | Up for me - http://www.howton-it.com/
Looks ike they are in process of changing their site and there are resolving problems.
Last edited by grandad; 09-08-2007 at 01:41 PM.
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| Posted by onelifeonelove, 09-08-2007, 01:50 PM | | Thanks. I'll try tomorrow.
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| Posted by CretaForce, 09-08-2007, 04:13 PM | | Are you sure that your webhost really sent the disk to 2 companies?
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| Posted by Bangalore Job Mob, 09-08-2007, 06:35 PM | | You know it's entirely possible that your data is simply not recoverable. Drive Savers may be good at taking advantage of people in their greatest times of need, but they don't generally hire incompetent technicians who would make up a thing like that.
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| Posted by VydorScope, 09-08-2007, 08:56 PM | | Not to mention, what ever the first company did to the try to try and recover it, could have killed any chance to do the recovery.
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| Posted by omega36, 09-08-2007, 10:05 PM | | Ouch.. that's a good point.
Good luck recovering the data though ._.
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| Posted by PortLayer, 09-08-2007, 10:42 PM | | Hey, I just saw your thread and wanted to add maybe trying these two companies:
http://www.ontrack.co.uk/
and
http://www.vogon.co.uk/
I don't anything about these companies, I don't know what they charge, their success rate or anything else about them shape or form...I just simply know they do data recovery, look into them.
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| Posted by onelifeonelove, 09-08-2007, 11:52 PM | | I'm pretty sure they did as they even gave me tracking URL to track the shipping.
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| Posted by bqinternet, 09-09-2007, 10:37 AM | | Is there a physical problem with the drive, or is just simply a corrupted filesystem? If it's just a corrupted filesystem, you have a much better chance of recovering data.
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| Posted by Vinayak_Sharma, 09-09-2007, 10:46 AM | | See if this company is servicing your area http://www.stellarinfo.com
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| Posted by Bangalore Job Mob, 09-09-2007, 11:04 AM | | Not really. It's a lot easier to do a platter transplant than it is to reconstruct volume data structures in a hex editor.
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| Posted by Tsohxert, 09-09-2007, 12:13 PM | | Please let us know how everything turned out, would love to know the ending of this story. Hope everything goes well, its an unfortunate thing
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| Posted by rfauske, 09-09-2007, 01:19 PM | | You also has IBAS, you could call them
http://www.ibas.com/
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| Posted by onelifeonelove, 09-12-2007, 03:56 AM | | At this stage I'm still thinking of who to go with.
I really don't know.
More failures = More chance of permanent data loss
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