I just visited Secure Data Recovery Services earlier today. I brought in my hard drive just this morning, and they already solved the problem right now - 3 hours total. I'm pretty surprised, I didn't know it could be done so fast! Especially considering that I spent days trying to solve it on my own.
The problem was that my computer stopped booting. It came up with a message that the hard drive could not be detected and shut down. So I started doing my own little investigation of the problem - did some online research, googled the error message, read forums. I actually followed some instructions to swap the drive with another computer, which was kind of risky for me as I never did anything like that before. Still didn't work, so it had to be the drive. I was just about to try taking the hard drive apart, but that's when sense sort of gripped me and I stopped - after all, it was a huge risk I was taking, doing it on my own, and I didn't want to lose the data.
I decided I better try a data recovery company here in Miami. Secure Data Recovery Services seemed to be the best choice, so I went with them.
Like I said - 3 hours, and they were done! They had my data copied to an identical (but working) drive and I was all set. The old drive had some sort of a mechanical malfunction, but luckily, it wasn't completely broken since no data was lost.
Thank you Secure Data Recovery Services! That was a great job you did.
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