Computer Data Recoveries in Los Angeles, CA

Look up Drive Savers. They’re based in NorCal and they’re known worldwide for their recovery services.

No one has mentioned Ontrack yet, but they’ve never not been able to save a drive for me! I had one that was gouged like crazy and they recovered over 99% of the data. And my favorite (and timely now) is about 10 years ago, on Thanksgiving a client’s server had two 15k sas (maybe scsi back then?) drives in a RAID5 with a hot spare fail within 6 hours of each other on Thanksgiving Day (too fast for the raid to rebuild)! Their external backup drive failed too, and the office manager hadn’t cycled drives in months... So I’m guessing some power issue to take out three drives that close. We couriered, same-day, the drives to Ontrack, and even though it was a Dell RAID with heavily damaged drives they got the data back and back to us on Sunday! For a mear $30k... yikes. Insurance was involved and did pay after the deductible. A normal drive will be $500-$2k depending on how fast you need it. But if it’s the end of the world, let them know and Leeroy will get pulled out of bed and into his bunny suit to help you.

I have a vendor that has been a life saver for me, local shop here in South Florida.

OC data recovery in Irvine. Highly recommend them!

DriveSavers. We have a lot of break/fix customers that don't take our backup advice, so we have to utilize them every now and then. You can sign up for a partner discount and it'll give your customer 10% off.

We recommended [Advanced Data Recovery Solutions](https://www.adv-data.com/) here in San Diego. Of course it is a bit expensive, but if they can't do it, no charge.

Gillware

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https://www.300 dollardatarecovery.com Haven’t used them myself but heard about them on a podcast.

They should expect $1000-$1500 for a 1-2 week turnaround with drive savers or gillware. Finding a local clean room will be a challenge.

If you’re in California, 300 dollar data recovery. Don’t overpay when you can get it done way cheaper and at the same exact quality that a place like drive savers would give.

Also for a similar but cheaper service to drive savers try Progressive Tech in Seattle, WA (service by mail)

[http://www.data-master.com](http://www.data-master.com) \- MicroCom Data Recovery in Chatsworth. I've used them several times over the years, and never had an issue, and their service has been excellent.

To give you an idea of a price for drive savers--friends usb got corrupted, paid 1 k to get data back

+1 for Drive Savers.

Hi -- We're in LA and have the most affordable rates around. http://www.300dollardatarecovery.com/ or find us on Yelp: http://www.yelp.com/biz/300-data-recovery-los-angeles

We can help. We recover data from external hard drives a every day. https://www.recoveryforce.com/pricing/

Drivesavers in Novato is well known in the industry and I have used them for various work endevours over the last 15+ years. But today is the first new day to start backing things up in the cloud with Apple or Mozy or other products and it is cheap and so worth it. www.drivesaversdatarecovery.com

PC Mall on Wilshire..

I am glad it worked out for you, Bruce. My guy charged $200.00 for all that you got inccluding a new 500G internal drive for the macbook and loaded it with Lion, CS6, and Office Mac suite, and another enclosure for a second restored 500G external drive that was recovered from the G5.

I am getting 100% of my hard drive data back and transferred to a new backup hard drive. I was quoted $600 - $1500+ by everyone else, but my new best friend was able to save everything for me, and for $200. I highly recommend Bobby at Hollywood PC Repair & Data Recovery at 323-387-3492.

If the data is really important, call your hard drive's customer service and arrange for data recovery. If you want to do it for cheap, try the repair shops in Gangding.

This is probably gonna be kind of annoying, but for when you do get it fixed, don't forget to start backing up your data!

Stateside This company is very good. Mail back and forth? Perhaps more secure and reliable than some shop? http://300 dollardatarecovery.com

The company has a crappy name but they've successfully recovered data for me a few times: https://www.300 dollardatarecovery.com/

Can you be a bit more specific on what it’s doing? Because to be honest if you did enough physical damage in the drop to misalign something or physically damage the armature or motors recovery will be.... difficult. Most so called “recovery experts” just run deep scan tools that piece together data that is still there just not seen, like when you delete something. But that relies on the drive functioning more or less. To do more than that you basically have to disassemble the drive and remove the platters where the data is stored and reinstall them to a new identical drive to be read. That means robots and clean rooms. Lots of money and basically no one does it unless you’re a cartel boss and the irs would really like to see your tax records.

How long out of warranty is it? I had a Seagate external that crashed eight months after the warranty and they offered their recovery services free of charge, I didn't even ask for it. Good luck, I'm still fuming about mine, making me rethink how to back up my stuff.

If you are content that your data might be lost and you don't want to pay for recovery you can try a DIY method. Remove the hard drive from the enclosure and if it has a SATA connector you can try to plug it into an existing computer. Boot that computer with an Ubuntu or other live linux cd. You can then use a program like ddrescue to create an image file of the disk, reading what it can. Depending on how extensive the damage is you can then clone the image to a new hard drive or run a program like testdisk to try to re-build what files it can. If the drive is missing the SATA connector (some external drives are just regular hard drives plugged into an enclosure) or the computer won't even acknowledge that a hard drive is present then this won't work at all. I've done this before with success (and also failure so YMMV). This site has a good walkthrough of the process: [https://www.technibble.com/guide-using-ddrescue-recover-data/](https://www.technibble.com/guide-using-ddrescue-recover-data/) Note that professionals charge a lot for this service so don't attempt this if you are going to hire someone, it'll just complicate their efforts and will make things worse.

Try messaging Nocturnal on here. He does drive recovery

Did they reload the OS? You can recover files off of a harddrive after it's been deleted with various applications in shell. As long as the drive hasn't already written over the data. IE: They format and then re-install operating system.. You are pretty much in trouble. But if it's still blank. You can run applications like: http://www.wondershare.com/disk-utility/recover-trash-mac.html There's tons of them out there and you aren't limited to this. When deleting information off a drive it just marks the drive sectors as available for writing, the data technically isn't deleted until the sectors are written over it. The only problem is sectors are typically stringed together and not synchronous, so if one sector was deleted the whole file would be corrupt.

I sent a corporate hard drive to this company years ago: https://www.300 dollardatarecovery.com/ Data wasn't able to be retrieved so we didn't pay anything. I'd use them again needed. EDIT: Also worked with DriveSavers in '07. Quote then on a 40GB HDD was $500-$2700 but the data wasn't recoverable.

They all very expensive. If platters are intact you can try to swap circuitry with working from same model drive.

Lynette do you have important data on the hard drive? If so we can attempt a data recovery check out 300 ddr.com for more info!

Clicking indicates hardware failure, so unfortunately you’re going to be looking at a higher tier recovery cost. Some drives are cheaper to repair than others, but you won’t see $300 for that kind of issue at any shop I know of. If you don’t need the content urgently, it won’t worsen if you put it on a shelf for a few months as you save up. Where are you located? A second opinion might be good to get, someone here could make a recommendation in your country

What's the exact model of this drive? Drives rarely cost $1000+ at an honest shop. How long was it left powered after it started acting up? Did it just suddenly stop working, or did it slow down and /or gradually start misbehaving over time? How much did anyone mess with it once it was observed to be clicking?

See what this guy has to say: https://www.300 dollardatarecovery.com/