On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 11:54:41AM -0600, David Young wrote: > > I want to avoid paying a steep price to a service that scans the > medium and, finding no FAT/NTFS/HFS+/APFS volume on it, declares it > unrecoverable when, in actual fact, every bit is intact. Is there a > service that I can trust my NetBSD disk to that has a reasonable fee > structure? >
Perhaps you can find one that will provide a binary blob of this disk contents so you can loop mount the file and recover stuff. As for cost I think the attitude of the data recovery places is that they have you by the short and curlies so they can charge what they like, I know that recovery can be complex and challenging but the pricing does seem excessive. If you have the same model drive you could take the electronics board off a working drive and put it on the dead one - I have done that in the past to good effect. -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"