$500-$1900 ro recover data on my hard drive...WTF

[newbrew]

Good friggin lord! A data recovery agency quoted me $500-$1900 to recover the data on a hard drive that i messed up.

The disk isnt actually damaged, but rather the electronics..

christ..any of you know any decent priced services? I was thinking around $300

[FCECC2]

buy the same disk and swap the components...

[newbrew]

buy the same disk and swap the components...

I tried doing that with a model that was 1 year newer. It ended up frying the new drive. I just sent that one back to newegg and claimed it arrived broken. Perhaps finding an EXACT model will work. I know the board numbers on the electronics were slightly different.

[newbrew]

I wonder if swapping the actual discs inside the drive might work. I'd have to find a super clean place to do that id imagine.

[robkesl]

yeah id imagine that would be difficult too.

[hellapimpin]

that is murder....what kind of comp you got.components, and running on what operating system...your gonna get ripped.

[ENraged]

those are normaly prices for data recovery. if the drive cant be hooked up as slave to copy the info over by hand then in most cases your screwed.