I know no one locally. If the drive is "clicking," and unreadable, they will need a company with clean room facilities. The process is so straightforward now there are probably 100 competent companies online.
Having said that, I have used Ontrack (now Kroll Ontrack) off and on for over 20 years for server drive data recovery. The last time was 5-6 years ago. They are generally good, but expensive. On their website, there is a Chat facility so you can get a good idea what you are up against without wasting a lot of time with email/phone calls. Also, they have a lot of information about the data recovery process that is useful even if a different service is used. There is an opportunity to go to a lower priced company using less sophisticated methods, but the student should make sure what is done to the drive is non-destructive (all work done on a copy) so they can try another place if necessary. If the person has an idea what filenames and file type(s) need to be recovered, there is a greater chance of recovery and usually a reduction in price. For example, if the only files worth recovering are SAS data files, they will ignore OS and other data files and only recover .s* files. My success rate in getting back what I wanted is around 67%. [ Sorry for the long post. Just finished writing a terse manual and must have needed verbosity.;<\ ] Doyle Van Zandt *Creative Support Systems, LLC* 225-324-7045 Mobile 225-275-7709 Preferred 225-366-7045 *dvanza...@csssupports.com* On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:34 PM, Karthik Poobal <kart...@poobal.net> wrote: > Looking for a profession Data Recovery service around BR or NO area. The > info is for a student at LSU. Apparently, some very critical data was > stored on a external drive and the drive is clicking and it's not readable. > It's the usual story. No backup and months of work probably lost. > > Any service recommendations or experiences? > > -- > Karthik Poobal > Louisiana Board of Regents > Office of Sponsored Programs > kart...@poobal.net > kart...@la.gov > 225-341-5855 > Skype: poobal > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
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