first hand experience of data recovery

[femi fan]

A silly person has had his hard drive crash on him, with only some backed up. I now have the hard drive back in my possession. I'm hoping to hear from people who have had success with recovering their data, and who it was that helped them.

cheers

[zippydedodah]

they can do it at panthip for you...you have to leave HDD there and depending on size of the drive, can take several days.

However, if you have a good computer available that you don't need to turn off and can leave on for a couple of days, you can

do it yourself if you get the right programs.

I tried Stellar Phoenix (which is the one many folks at panthip use) and had very modest success and it took a LONG time.

I also used icare data recovery and had very good success with it and much faster too.

I was recovering data from 2 very burned out/overused 1 tb harddrives and got over 80% of my data recovered.

[luther]

Be careful. I took a hard drive to Pantip for data recovery and when I went back they said there was only one file on it. After a lot of questioning by me, the woman admitted she had used a new program that she wasn't familiar with and had lost all the files. I had most of the stuff backed up elsewhere, but re-assembling it was a pain. Go with a recommendation of a specific person.

[FolkGuitar]

I've been going through this lately myself. I have a 3 terabyte drive that has stopped working. I can find two or three different data recovery places (one of the extremely reliable in Bangkok called IDR,) but it seems that the local places can only work on drives that are still spinning. If the drive is dead, the problem may be the board (which is easily replaced - many replacement boards sold by Canadian companies for $50 USD, and you can swap them yourself in two minutes with just a Phillips screwdriver,) or the motor inside the case, which requires a 'clean room' and a replacement body for the platters. IDR in Bangkok can do that. You can send your drive to them for an evaluation;

Fix the drive or recover the data. Unfortunately, data recovery for a 3 terabyte drive costs about 20,000 baht... There is a fee schedule on their website, and technicians who speak English.

[NotEinstein]

I've had success recovering data from corrupted/damaged drives.

I used TestDisk under Linux.

If it spins, I can have a look at it for you.

PM me if you are interested.

[Ruedi]

I had to recover data from my Synology NAS - (RAID5) after deletion of a shared folder.

I used UFS Explorer - works great!

http://www.ufsexplorer.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iri65p4mUpM