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Service & Data Recovery We service all brands of IBM PC compatible systems (and Apple, too). That includes desktops and notebooks, and larger laser and business inkjet printers.  We do everything, from simply replacing a defective floppy drive to swapping notebook motherboards.  We commonly work on (and are pretty familiar with) many locally-built (Milwaukee PC, INET, PC Wisconsin, Omni Tech), mail-order (Dell, Gateway, Micron), and superstore (Compaq, HP, eMachine) machines. Our bench rate is a bargain at only $54/hour! Need data recovered?  Our capabilities include most types of media:  Hard drives (including IDE, SATA, and SCSI), removable disks (floppy, Iomega Zip and Jaz, LS-120), and all types of flash media (including but not limited to thumb drives, compact flash [CF1/CFII], MD, SM, SD, MMC, MS, MS Pro, RS-MMC, mini-SD, and MS(Pro)Duo). We can recover data from Windows and many "ix" (Linux, Unix, FreeBSD) computers.  We employ sophisticated software (some of which is proprietary) that will recover data from RAID sets.  We routinely recover data where the competition has claimed it was impossible.  And the best part?  Our rates.  We routinely recover drives for one fourth the rate of others. We'd be happy to provide a no-obligation recovery quote for $54 (one hour of service).  If the recovery is straight-forward and can be accomplished in less than one hour, you owe us nothing more.  Otherwise, we will provide a "not to exceed" estimate. We've performed recoveries for many local businesses and institutions.  References available upon request. Data Recovery Track Record Starting today (1/8/08) I will start documenting some of the data recovery jobs we've been working on (both successes and failures).  I will start going back and adding previous jobs as time allows (maybe something interesting to do while I'm sitting on the phone).  This list is by no means comprehensive, as we get three to four jobs on some days and I'm not going to mention each one. 12/27/07:  Mark S.  Success.  This one was interesting.  USB hard drive.  The customer had formatted the drive (accidentally) while reloading his O/S.  He called me Thursday (12/27) and explained what had happened.  I advised him to bring it in.  Later in the day he called and said he had taken the drive elsewhere and they were unable to recover the data, and wanted to know if I'd be able to do anything beyond what the other shop had tried (they tried a fairly simple software solution).  I explained that I have written much of my own software and have well over $10k in specialized equipment, and that I can probably get his data.   So, he brings the drive and a couple days later I have pretty much all his data.  This one was more expensive ($299) because of the volume of data and because the drive was corrupted before he even reformatted it (and there was quite a bit of extra work to straighten it all out). 1/3/2008:  Chris F.  In progress.  Drive has a stuck spindle.  This drive needs to be opened up. 1/7/2008:  Juanita C.  Success.  Approx. 100-GB (lots of photos and videos).  Cost $216.  Drive has smart problems that cause it to take itself off-line when you read certain sectors.  Made pulling an image lots of fun, but well worth it in the end. 1/7/2008:  Kate J.  Success.  Approx. 80-GB (lots of photos and music).  Cost $216.  Massive corruption to the front-end of the drive.  What happened, I donno. 1/7/2008:  Jim S.  Failure.  This customer had sent the drive to OnTrack before bringing it to us.  OnTrack quoted $1600 to recover the data from this portable USB hard drive.  Unfortunately, the drive doesn't even spin for me.  I'd dig into it more but I have no idea what OnTrack may have done.  Please avoid sending drives to outfits like OnTrack and DriveSavers w/o seeing me first.  In my opinion, if you decline recovery, the drive comes back in worse shape than they got it.

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