12 Mar
2010
12 Mar
'10
5:54 a.m.
John Foust wrote:
I think I'll send it to Gillware.com, a Madison,
WI-based recovery
place. They offer $400-700 Windows recovery but charge a premium
for Mac recovery ($700-$1000) and Linux ($800-1000), with the higher
price for "clean room recovery". (Hmm, I thought bits were bits.)
Any other advice - besides a better backup strategy?
I'm curious about that - presumably the cost differences encompass them
stitching partial data back together from the different filesystems and
getting you as much of your data back as possible in the case where the actual
disk surfaces are hosed. Whether the cost reflects the complexity of the
different filesystems or just the abilities of the staff there ("we charge
more for Linux because we only have one guy who knows how to do that"), I
don't know.
In your case, it sounds like the data *might* be fine - in which case they'll
be making a few hundred bucks out of you just because you don't happen to have
a Windows system , and all they'll do is swap the NVRAM on your drive and drag
the contents off.
cheers
Jules