That way you least have a copy of all the bits. Even if the parition can't be mounted, you can use tools that copy the drive contents bit-by-bit, for example using "dd" from linux. In this case, the price is understandable, but maybe you can find such a tool (or combination of tools) yourself for less than 16k? Don't know if spinrite can do it but perhaps others.Ģ) If they can copy the raw data without using special equipment, so can you.
(16000 Taiwan dollars seems to be about 350 euros?)ġ) They will use a software tool of some kind to fix your partition. Last I heard a quote for such an operation the price was over 10x as much as what your local company demands.
That way they can copy the drive before attempting any recovery and without risking that a flaw in the drive causes further damage.
But many suggestions were helpful and informational.Ī professional data recovery procedure involves opening the drive in a "clean room", mounting the platters in a special machine that can read data that the drive head itself cannot. I accepted Console's as it's most directly related to my question. She told me that the problem was considered minor, and I should be able to boot normally and just copy stuff out. I'll attempt to contact the engineer and hope to get it clarified and make an edit here.Īfter much negotiating and begging and seeing through promotion smoke screen, thanks to the nice representative who took my case, I now know that the engineer has already fixed my NTFS partition (I guess it might be a bad block in the partition table?). Ultimately I want my data back, but if a cheaper way is available to achieve the same thing.Ĭan operating with SpinRite also corrupt data in some way?
I spoke to the representative at the company, and they recommended me not to handle it on my own (yeah of course that's what they all want to say, right?), and at the price tag the disk error is probably relatively minor and data recoverable. Option A: let the professional recover it with the half of my Now I'm weighting in between the options. allowed by regulation, may be lower, may change depend on funding). That's kind of a lot considering that my graduate student monthly stipend is currently NTD $32,000 (max. Now the company charges me NTD (New Taiwan Dollar) $16,000 to recover lost data. The engineer handling my drive will not be available for contact till tomorrow. A representative responded today told me that the NTFS partitions have an "NTFS partition system crash".
In my previous post (you don't need to read it, but it is Error “a disk read error occurred” on Windows XP), I said that my hard disk was not booting and is showing "a disk read error occurred".