[X4U] Re: Un-erase?

[Stroller]

On Apr 2, 2005, at 2:13 am, Timothy J. Luoma wrote:
>
> ....... Original Message .......
> On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 16:20:53 -0500 "Richard Gilmore" <rgilmor at uwo.ca> 
> wrote:
>> Is there any way to un-erase a file? I deleted something important by
>> mistake. I didn't have Norton or any other utility installed at the 
>> time of
>> the erase.
>
> if it isn't in the recycler, you're looking at several thousand $$ for 
> data
> recovery.

In the UK, I have recently found data recovery to have become 
surprisingly affordable.

Vogon, a well-established & -respected company charge nothing for 
inspecting the drive & delivering a quotation and claim that "in 90% of 
cases, the cost of data recovery is between £200 and £400 plus VAT". 
The mention "MAC all versions" in their list of supported 
operating-systems.

This bloke <http://www.retrodata.co.uk/> charges:
- private individuals (c 1 week turnaround): £75.00 + £1.50/gig
- business (c 3 days turnaround): £145.00 + £2/gig
- business priority: £225 + £3/gig   (all figures include VAT)
He has a very good reputation on a couple of UK computing newsgroups, 
and promises to refund your recovery fee if he can't get any data.

If you base your assumptions on the likelihood that you've lost your 
files & they're gone forever, data recovery is a gamble - you might 
spend the money & still have nothing to show for it. But from as little 
at £115 for a 20gig hard-drive it would seem now to be within the 
realms of affordability even for private individuals.

Stroller.