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Example of just 2 drives out of the many we see damaged by individuals, IT people who think they can recover their own data, even OTHER Data Recovery Companies that don’t know what they are doing destroying people’s hard drives and important data! One of these “other” data recovery companies advertises all the time everywhere and has a slick website “claiming” to have a Class 100 Cleanroom! The first example is a Seagate 750GB Hard Drive and the second example is a Western Digital 80GB Hard Drive. Most of these companies who are completely unqualified to be even touching people’s hard drives are the companies popping up everywhere advertising a low flat rate even for cleanroom data recoveries. The people behind those companies often take a few courses, read some information online, buy a few tools and believe they are ready to start making big bucks like the big companies recovering data! Invasive data recovery is nowhere near as simple as it looks and is an extremely delicate precision process that should only be carried out by skilled disk storage engineers. When a drive has bad head(s), seized spindle motor and your data is important leave it to the professionals and stay away from ANY company claiming cleanroom data recovery for one low flat rate price for all drives. Most of these companies are only capable of what we consider easy data recoveries “our $199″ basic service, they lie and tell customers that they are cleanroom data recoveries charging 2-3 times as much …

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I have a Seagate 500 GB/7200rpm something or other hard drive that suffered trauma when the Macbook it was in hit the ground. The drive is like 2 years old. I sent it to Data Recovery Labs and they quoted $1690 to recover the data. Surely there must be an alternative that *normal* people can afford? Any tips?
What do you mean by “freezing it”?
But can this be done if the dead computer can’t even be booted?

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