Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You'll find that the reliable, professional data recovery companies will all come in with costs in the neighborhood of $1,600. I had great reservations when I found myself where you're at. Gillware does not charge if they don't get the data (which in itself scared me). Yet, this is what they do; and they did a superb job of it. I believe that Brian mentioned Gillware to me. Fond regards, George george@imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Sep 30, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > At 12:15 PM 9/30/2008, you wrote: >> So sorry to hear of your downer drive >> >> I used these folks a couple months ago to retrieve my data >> Gillware Inc. >> very expensive >> George > > How expensive is very expensive? I'm sending mine in for a quote > but I don't want to be totally in shock when I get the estimate. > It's about 600GB of photos. > > Seagate has a separate recovery company that will try to retrieve > the information for a fee and then put it on a hard drive to > replace the one that is still under warranty. I guess that would > be the best of both options to try to retrieve the files and still > get the warranty from Seagate. I'm sure the fee will be > significant, though :-( > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information