hard drive data recovery

Hello,

My 20 GB laptop hard drive has crashed. It has already been to the
service folks at Univ of Chicago and I am told that I will need to
send it to a data recovery service if I want the data. They suspect
that the data disk will need to be placed in a new drive in order to
read the data and that therefore clean room (dust free) conditions are
needed. I was stunned at the est. $1500 cost of recovering the data.
Can any of you suggest to this newbie where I might find the most
competitively priced quality data recovery service?

Thanks, Michael Hobaugh

PS please cc your comments to my email address

(Michael Hobaugh) wrote in message news:<. com>...
> Hello,
>
> My 20 GB laptop hard drive has crashed. It has already been to the
> service folks at Univ of Chicago and I am told that I will need to
> send it to a data recovery service if I want the data. They suspect
> that the data disk will need to be placed in a new drive in order to
> read the data and that therefore clean room (dust free) conditions are
> needed. I was stunned at the est. $1500 cost of recovering the data.
> Can any of you suggest to this newbie where I might find the most
> competitively priced quality data recovery service?
>
> Thanks, Michael Hobaugh
>
> PS please cc your comments to my email address

One thing to try first is to put the drive in the freezer and see if
it will run for a little after you take it out. I guess this actually
works sometimes, though only long enough to get some data off.

Aaron