Data Recovery Company Recommendations

[kevin_476]

Can anyone recommend a data Recovery Company? Like anyone who's had a hard drive crash, I don't want to trust the recovery of my image files to an inexperienced outfit. I have/had a LaCie d2 Big Disk 500GB with about 400GB of files on it. Evidently, the problem is most likely electronic, as there is a small hole burned on the control card. Some of the files are backed up, but not all, and they are all important to me.

It's my understanding that the 2 Maxtor drives inside are RAID O configured, which makes recovering the files more complicated. If it's risky to fix, then I want to use a reliable, established company.

Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated

If you are pretty sure it is the control board, you can do what the recovery company would probably do anyway...that is to replace the electronics.

[logan_657]

For a proprietary drive like the Big Disk, the easiest and probably the most cost effective thing to do is to buy another drive. Assuming that the circuit board dying hasn

[MorePaul]

I'd recommend Ontrack, they're the largest for good reason...they're that good

[Mig-ARC]

Stellar Phoenix Data Recovery Software a powerful tool to recover data from
* Formated hard drive
* Software Malfunction
* File/Directory Deletion.
* Viruses
* Sabotage.

It Provides Partition recovery from FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, NTFS5 file systems.
Performs NTFS recovery on all IDE, EIDE and SCSI disk devices.
Supports recovery of compressed files.