Elcotronics in Myaree is very good at hard-drive rebuilds. They have a proper clean room and control procedures to ensure that nothing extra will impact on the drive. I do not recommend any DIY Hard-Drive rebuilding no matter who or what you are as it only takes a few specs of dust to ruin it.

Out at lunch at the moment so can't get their name, but we used a place south of the river before to recover photos etc off a busted had for our GM's wife. May have actually been Elcotronics mentioned above...ill find their contact details when I get back in the office

Have also used Spectrum Data several times at BHP and DoD. $2000 up is usually the cost and they always get the data back.

Ok just checked my emails, it was Elcotronics that we used. Cost $1950 for retrival of about 500GB of data. Plus you need to provide the USD HDD for the retrieved data to be copied to etc.

Thanks guys - looks like its getting narrowed down to a couple of potential companies.

+1 for Spectrum. Pricey, but specialists at what they do.

How did you go in the end???

[QUOTE=jasonmurray;736552]How did you go in the end???[/QUOTE]

Information passed on. Unaware of result or even attempt, however, I'm not surprised with his current commitments.

He is doing Peking to Paris rally in a couple of months.

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[QUOTE=jasonmurray;736552]How did you go in the end???[/QUOTE]

Hard drive was eventually recovered with only 1000 odd files out of 70,000 odd not recoverable. Total cost was over $2500 including cost of replacement drive.

Pricey but Spectrum Data's work was unquestionably very professional. For anyone thinking they need this type of work done I cannot recommend enough.