Storage Solutions Estimated data recovery charge.

Pimpom

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My 2TB HDD (Toshiba HDWD120UZSVA) with ~700GB of data crashed due to a severe power fluctuation that overwhelmed the UPs. The drive is still accessible and I managed to copy a few GBs of data from it. But it's slow going, probably due to bad sectors from the crash.

So far, I've tried only one session of copying with Tera Copy, not any recovery software. I can probably recover most of the data myself after doing a surface scan but didn't want to risk causing further damage and data loss, so I disconnected the drive. That was two months ago.

My question is: Has anyone employed the services of a data recovery company in such a scenario and can give an estimate of the charges? This is probably one of the easiest tasks for a company with proper facilities.
 
No damage is gonna be caused as long as the drive is working AND its your only chances of getting the data recovered on your own. Pro services are anyways going cost you a bomb and unless its some corporate thing better and you have something really worthy better not to opt for it.
I have been recovering data for my employers by myself but its hard to believe by people around but that's fine., Have saved lacs till now.

You can use getdataback, recuva or stellar. I would start with gdb and its my trustworthy tool since two decades.

Also, if your drive had partitions the better to recover the partitions using easeus partition master as its easier than data recovery.

And for all these operations, ensure you have an additional storage 1.5 times of your existing ones.
 
Thanks for the reply. Oh, I've done plenty of data recovery myself but they were always for others. This is the first time I'm facing any problem with my own storage in 30 years of using computers.

What I mean is this: A head crash could cause only a tiny bit of damage, maybe a couple of sectors. No problem with that. But a more serious crash could score the surface coating, causing tiny bits of magnetic material to fly around, maybe even block the head travel in some places and cause endless problems.

I'm moving to an all-SSD system anyway and the HDD itself is to be discarded. Maybe I'll do a surface scan and be able to transfer everything normally. Using a professional data recovery company is only a last resort, just in case. I just wanted to have some ballpark estimate of how much they'll charge in such cases.
 
My HDD had crashed last year which had some critical data. It was WD 3TB HDD. The important data was around 250 GBs only. I had to resort to professional service for the same as the drive was not being detected at all even in BIOS. They charged me around 7K for the service. It took around 3 days for the overall process. I was able to get all the data and they even returned my faulty drive (which was a bit surprising to me). I got it done at Nehru Place (New Delhi). Overall I was happy with their service.