HD crash-NAC

[Alan Pritchard]

Be wary of hard drive recovery companies
We lost a drive at work, similar scenarios, posted the drive off and they did some basic analysis for a nominal fee.
Came back saying they could probably do something, looked a bit further and decided they needed another pcb..... after a while told us they couldn't find one, we hunted around and decommissioned a server which had exactly the same revision drives, sent them a drive.
After much argument they sent us a report of all the files which could be recovered, the report was basically a list of generic files you would find on any windows operating system.... We paid out approximately £800 to get us that far...


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From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Gerard
Sent: 03 February 2010 14:54
To: Audi List
Subject: Re: HD crash-NAC

You could try to find an identical drive and swap the circuit boards.
Quite often it is a fault on the board rather than a motor failure.
Perhaps a bust component from static, etc. It has worked before, and
sometimes not, but winds up being less than $700.

YMMV ... but if it varies too much then just throw the drive a little
further. :)

> From: "SteveR" <srosen at starxray.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 10:52 PM
> To: "Audi List" <quattro at audifans.com>
> Subject: HD crash-NAC
>
>> The office HD stopped today
>> and upon restoring a new drive we discovered that one directory wasn't
>> being backed up.
>>
>> The drive doesn't spinup but the data should be intact.
>>
>> Any suggestions to data recovery other than Ontrak. They want $700 and
>> up.
>>
>> TIA
>> Steve
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone

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