That $180 data recovery software did nothing for my dead drive

I had a 2TB Seagate fail on me last month while working on a client's backup server in Austin. Paid $180 for some fancy recovery tool that promised to fix bad sectors, but it just spun the drive worse and I lost everything anyway. Ended up sending it to a shop in Round Rock that charged $350 just to look at it, and they said the heads were already gone. Has anyone else gotten burned by these DIY recovery programs, or is there a trick to actually saving a drive that's clicking?

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oliver24212d ago

You ever get the feeling software companies just sell hope in a box, and the box is fancier than the drive itself? Mine did the same exact thing, clicking away like a dying cricket while the program promised it was "recovering" my files, and then it just gave up and told me to contact a lab. At this point I'm convinced the only trick is to mail it off before you even try the DIY route, because every minute the drive is clicking is a minute the heads are grinding themselves into dust.