Where can you find cheap data recovery?

Answer 1

There is no such thing as a data recovery hard drive. However, hard drives to back up recovered data can be purchased at any major electronics retailer such as Radio Shack, Best Buy or stores like Walmart and Target. Data recovery services may be purchased through companies such as the BestBuy Geek Squad.

Answer 2

Many computer sales stores offer data recovery services. Some of the brick and mortar stores are Best Buy, Staples, and Office Depot. The one that is a boss in this domain is Stellar data recovery services, their softwares and their in-lab services are excellent because they do it very delicately and in a sophisticated way.

Answer 3

Hard drive recovery software can be purchased from Herman Street, MyCommerce, and PROSOFT engineering, inc. Some examples of hard drive recovery software includes Stellar Phoenix, R-Studio, Data Rescue, and Power Data Recovery.

Answer 4

First off you need to understand the difference between Data Recovery and PC Repair.

PC Repair is a module replacement repair.

Examples of what a module is:

Power supply

Motherboard

Cooling fans

CD ROM Drive

Hard Drive

Memory

Microprocessor

If your power supply fails, nobody fixes the power supply.

They just install a new one and throw the old one in the garbage.

If your motherboard fails, throw it in the garbage and install a new one.

Why do they do this?

Take a look at the motherboard below.

If the motherboard fails, how do you fix it?

You need special equipment, an engineering degree and a bunch of replacement parts.

It could take an hour or more of a highly skilled engineer to find the bad part and replace it.

The motherboard in the picture above sells for $43.95 new.

Do you think you can find an engineer that can fix it for $43.95?

Most likely not.

A hard drive like your motherboard is also module.

The standard procedure of a PC shop is to throw it in the garbage and install a new one.

But if the hard drive contains important data, you do not want to do that.

If your hard drive stopped working you need to repair it to get your data off.

You need a highly skilled engineer with special equipment to get your data off.

Some people think that a hard drive is like a CD player and you can just pop the disk out and put it in another CD player. That is not the case with hard drives. CDs are recorded in a standardized format. The standard tells each CD drive manufacturer how many tracks per inch, how many sectors per track and how the data must be saved in exact detail. That way any CD can be read or written by any CD drive.

A hard drive is different. There is no standard on how the data should be saved on the disk. This allows manufactures to save the data on the disk in a million different ways. Each drive is unique and the only thing that can read the disk is the original drive that wrote it. That means that the original drive needs to be repaired.

People that repair PCs do not need engineering degrees. They just need to be able to follow a step by step procedure. If symptom A occurs, replace component B. If they follow the step by step procedure the PC will be repaired every time.

Hard drive repair requires special tools, a deep understanding of electrical circuits, computer components, machine code and debug. A bachelor of science in Engineering and lots of hands on debug of electromechanical components and firmware code is a must to become a good data recovery engineer. There are no debug or service manuals for hard drives.

Data Recovery people rarely do PC repair.

Why?

Because PC Repair can be done by lower skilled workers for a much lower price.

Can your Doctor clean your house? Yes.

Will your your Doctor clean your house? Yes, If you are willing to pay his prices.

Would you you have the person who cleans your house do bypass surgery on you?

Do you really need a Data Recovery company?

Just because your computer does not work, that does not mean you need a data recovery company.

If there is nothing wrong with your hard drive, you need a PC Repair company.

If you push the power button on your computer one day and it does not come on you most likely need a PC Repair person not a Data Recovery person.

If you were hit with a virus or deleted some files, you need a PC repair person.

If your hard drive has been running slower and slower then stopped, you most likely need a data recovery company. This is specially true if your computer is over 3 years old.

If you dropped your computer either on the floor or in water or it was in a fire, you need a data recovery company.

If your hard drive is not spinning or making funny noises it never made before, you need a data recovery company.

Is your data really worth it?

The next thing you must do is determine exactly what you have lost and what you have backups of.

If you only lost a few hours of work, you may not need data recovery.

Data recovery is rarely under $200.

If it was easy, your PC repair person should have been able to recover it for you for less.

Determine if the data you lost is worth $200.

If not, you do not need data recovery.

Is the Data recovery company real?When you are searching for a Data Recovery company on the internet, make sure they are real.

Most of the places that pop up on the internet during a search for Data Recovery are just drop ship places. They are middle men who receive your drive and send it to real data recovery places. In most cases they double the price they are charged and keep the difference.

In may cases your drive is shipped out of state and in some cases it is shipped out of this country for the recovery.

A good way to tell if it is a drop ship place is to call them up and ask if you can bring it to their place and if they will debug it while you wait and show you their data recovery equipment. If they say no, you know they are just a drop ship place.

There are many Data Recovery places that rent office space and have a receptionist and a smart sounding salesman up front. They claim they do the data recovery in the back room. The fact is they will never show you the back room because it does not exist.

A virtual office can be rented for as little as $49.00/month.

This includes a nice building, a secretary to answer your phone and forward your packages.

The best way to detect this is to search their street address in google followed by "office space".

If a virtual office space company pops up, you know the address is not real.

Data Recovery is a highly specialized field and there are very few people that do it.

In the state of NJ there are only 3 companies that actually do level 3 data recovery on site.

Data Recovery works most efficient if all the engineers and equipment are in one building.

If you see many locations you know the location is just a drop ship.

The truth about "Clean rooms"Many recovery companies make a big deal about their Clean room. But when you open most crashed drives they are full of metal shavings. One metal shaving is far worse than one speck of dust. The most important thing you should ask is do they have good methods cleaning contamination from hard drives. This includes corrosion from water and soot from fire. Does the company have a large supply OF spare parts?No hard drive manufacturer sell any parts for their hard drives. If a part is required to fix your hard drive the only place to get it from is a exact matching hard drive to yours. Sometimes the hardest part of a data recovery job is finding matching parts. It is very important that the hard drive company you select have a huge inventory of parts drive.

We have thousands of parts drives.

Most of these drives are from previous jobs that we recovered

(If you do not want your old drive back we will give you $5 for it)

There have been may jobs that our competitors have not been able to recover and we recovered only because we had matching parts and they did not.

This is a very important item that sets us apart from the other companies.

Your drive may be from a limited lot made many years ago.

If the hard drive company can't find parts for your drive, they can't recover it.

Is there a Superman Data recovery place?Once you find a place that actually does data recovery in house, you need determine which one to select. Some places claim they have special tools and special people that are ten time smarter than anybody else. The fact is, all the good data recovery places do it the same way. We all have the same tools and methods. When one person develops a new procedure and method, we all know about it. It is much like finding a heart surgeon. All heart surgeons use the same tools and methods. When one finds a unique procedure that works slightly better, everybody finds out about it. Reviews?Google and other search engines provide company reviews.

Just go to Google maps and search on the companies address.

Do you see any reviews?

There is a very common trick many companies do if they get too many negative reviews.

They simply delete their Google local listing and create a new one.

That knocks out all negative reviews and all positive reviews. it basically clears their slate.

If the company is real and as big and good as they say they are they should have positive reviews dating back 5 years or more. Do you really think it is possible that nobody reviewed them over the last 5 years? I have seen some bad data recovery companies delete and recreate their listing once a week or as soon as someone leaves them another bad review.

We have all positive reviews going back over 5 years!

Pay Per Click?

Google charges about $20/click for top position for the term "Data Recovery".

The top three boxes and all the boxes to the right on Google are pay per click advertising.

Why do they have to pay $20/click to get your business?

How can they afford that? When they are charging $2,000 per job it is OK to pay $500 in advertising to get that customer. We get most of our customers by word of mouth. We are also the top non paid ad on Google if you search for Data Recovery in New Jersey. We got to that position just by being around so long. We pay less than $100/month on advertising (some places pay more than that each day).

Price?

Price is the most difficult thing to get out of any data recovery company.

There can be 1,000 things wrong with your hard drive.

They can run from easy to impossible.

A typical recovery will run between 1 and 8 man-hours plus up to about 2 weeks of machine time to extract your data, plus parts.

Some companies charge $100 per hour. Some charge $500 per hour. Some pay over $500 in advertising.

Some charge by how desperate you are for the data.

If they do not ask you many questions of what is wrong with the drive and lots of questions on what you lost and when was your last backup, you know they will give you prices equal to your desperation.

Don't send it to any place that gives you a large range quote (i.e. $250 to $2500).

You must talk directly with an engineer (not a sales person) and they should be able to give you a much closer range depending on the symptoms you describe before you send it.

If you don't do this, you will be paying $2,500 no matter what the failure.

We are not afraid to show you our prices. Please visit our Price Page

How many other companies will tell you a price on their web site without a salesman talking to you first?

LARGE COMPANY VS. SMALL COMPANY?The large data recovery companies tend to pay more attention to hard drives from other large companies. To most large companies a charge under $1,000 is unheard-of. They are always charged and always willing to pay $1,000 or more no matter how simple the failure is. A home user or someone from a small company is normally pushed behind any of the big paying jobs. If your job is taking a lot of time and you are not paying that much, there is a good chance they will pull the plug on your job and tell you it is "unrecoverable" when it is not.

The problem with small companies is they may not have all the equipment needed to do a high quality data recover job. Some data recovery equipment cost over $12,000 per machine. Some companies do not do the more complex jobs. They may do level 1 and level 2 recoveries but not level 3. These places advertise $199, $299 or $399 prices but they don't do the more complex jobs like head replacement. The Level one $199 people will just run data recovery software on your hard drive. If they can't get your data, they simply say it is unrecoverable and return it to you. The danger with this is if your drive is failing, just simply running data recovery software on your drive will make it worse. We have received many drives that were reading when it was given to the level 1 people but crashed while running their software. Sometimes it crashes so bad that the disk gets scratched making the drive unrecoverable by all other data recovery companies.

Some of the Biggest advertising lies:

"We have a 99% success rate"How is that possible when 20% of the clicking drives that data recovery companies get in look like the drives below?

We sent four drive like you see above to one of those 99% success rates places. They sent them back and said that they can't recover scratched drive. We asked them about their 99% success rate and they said they recover 99% of the drives they choose to recover.

"We have 27 locations in the USA"The biggest data recovery company in the world has only two locations in the USA. If you check carefully you will find out that 26 of their locations are just mail forwarding services. You send your important hard drive to some unskilled worker who simply repacks it and ships your hard drive to their main location. Data recovery is a complex process that requires hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment and parts plus highly skilled engineers. The engineers work best at one location. No single person can be an expert at all hard drives. Normally an engineer can become a specialist on one or two manufacturers of hard drives. Would you go to a Doctor Who claims they are a heart surgeon, brain surgeon, dentist, gynecologist etc.? "We will recover your data in 2 days or less"

Most hard drives do not read very well after major surgery. There is no way to speed it up no matter what you do. This includes old drives with image fade or head fade. It is not uncommon for us to have hard drives on our imaging machine running 24/7 for days and sometimes weeks. The only way to get you data in under 2 days is to simply pull the plug. That is what many places do that advertise quick service. If only 5% of your files are recovered in 2 days, that is all you get. You pay their full price for 5% and they go to their next job.

Answer 5

There are many places where one can purchase data recovery hardware online. One may try major software retailers such as Newegg, or eCost. One may also purchase this hardware through Amazon or eBay.

Answer 6

The least expensive way to get cheap data recovery would be to download data recovery software. Failing that a service called Drivefish provides data recovery for less than $200.

Answer 7

One can purchase hard disk recovery services by going to the Nation Wide Data Recovery website. The website allows for people to purchase software that recovers hard disk information.