Data recovery service

Does anyone know a company that can recover data from a damaged hard drive?  I've tried hooking the disk up to another computer and running Active Undelete on it, but it doesn't work.  They hard drive has bad sectors.

Also, how much could I expect it to cost to get the service done?

expect to pay no less than $200, but no more than probably a couple thousand.

Now by damaged to you mean just bad sectors, or LOL DROPPED IT?

>>2
I have no idea what's happened to this thing, my sister brought it in.  It's from a laptop, and she has tons of fucking kids running around all the time, so I have no doubt that it probably has smashed into the floor more than once.

One day the operating system just stopped working, so she decided to run knoppix disk utilities on it, because apparently that's what hackers do when their computers fuck up.  She ended up deleting the entire partition map.

I asked her if it had been dropped a lot, and she steadfastly denies it, so I'll just say that it developed bad sectors out of the blue.  I can access the drive contents just fine from XP, but Active undelete just freezes up about a tenth of the way in and refuses to go any further; every read attempt apparently results in failure.

So, do you know the contact information for any of these companies, preferably in the southeastern united states? Google avails nothing, I must not know what to search for.

>>3
First and foremost, I'm pretty sure there's data recovery tools that handle bad sectors a lot better. You might even want to run a check disk on it and set it to automatically repair bad sectors, then give Active Undelete another shot.

Should you not want to do that, or that fails as well, I'd first check out who the manufacturer of the disk is. Or maybe check these guys out http://www.harddriverx.com/ looks like it might be a good deal, and relatively close to you

>>3
>I asked her if it had been dropped a lot, and she steadfastly denies it

In woman language, that means "I drop it from a six-story building at least twice a day."

Be sure to remind her never to let a kid touch a puter until he realizes it's not a toy he can just fuck with at his fancy.

you can't trust women...ever

Ontrack 6.3 seems awright. Everything else I've used fails.

you can't trust women...ever
Words of wisdom.

However, since it's your sister, you can always turn a blind eye on her as long as she lets you stick it up her pooper. Just tell her, "okay, you dropped it, but if you have sex with your onii-chan I'll forget about the whole thing".