Wesley Griffin wrote: > Just last week I pointed a colleague a > <http://www.ontrackdatarecovery.com>. They have provided good service > in the past. Be warned: you looking at thousands of dollars for this > service (we last used it over five years ago, but I would be surprised > if their prices had changed). >
We used them successfully a few months ago after one of our IT people accidentally switched source and dest when ghosting a disk. Ontrack was able to recover the data remotely. It involved downloading and installing a piece of software on a PC and then rebooting the machine. This turned it into a kind of remotely accessible recovery console that they logged into to analyze the disk, which was attached to the recovery PC with one of those SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 adapters already mentioned. If the disk is damaged, though, that might not work. They charge something like $100 for the eval, and then you can use a web-based app to browse what they would be able recover. At that point you decide if you want to pay the full price to get your data back. In our case it was about $1500, for an NTFS partition. Don't know what they'd charge for ext3 (or what have you). -David -- David Eisner CALCE Center University of Maryland
