Hello

I recently experienced a hard drive problem, my hard drive (IDE) which is a Hitachi 250 GB 7200rpm after carrying it to a friend’s house stop working properly ..is not recognized by the bios and even though that at the start spins normally and makes the normal sound after a while it makes a clicking noise,
The drive contains 160 gb of data of which 50 gb (pictures and documents) are really important .
The shop that I bought it from can refund it or exchange it alternatively I can return it back to Hitachi and get a replacement one .
“But they cannot recover my data or repair the hard drive.�
(I don’t know how legal is that and I question it)
The problem is that the hard drive contains vital data for me and I cannot pay more than £100 for it.
The cheapest company that I found http://www.easyrecovery.co.uk/ will charge me about £250 to recover the data.
One guy in a pc shop that looked at my drive said that it might be the chip board of the drive and if I could find a similar one he can change it…
I don’t want to loose my data and I can’t afford to pay to much,
Please if anyone can recommend something , a cheaper company ..or any shop,person that can fix it in the U.K …or even a guide to try to fix it my self as a last resort I would appreciate it a lot .
Please reply to this forum or e-mail me at panos100m@gmail.com

Thanks Peter

If you go to this site download the E-book.. Then ask them how much to recover your disk.
http://www.fields-data-recovery.co.u...ads/index.html

It will normally cost around £400 to recover such a large drive. I will keep looking but i do not think you have much chance of finding a service for less than £250. loz

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Hi

Have you sorted the recovery as of yet?