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Question regarding keeping the free space at the end of hard disk for recovery purpose?
March 29th, 2010 | 
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Some motherboard manufacturer advise to keep some free space at the end of hard disk for recovery of OS/Data I do not know whether it is advised by the motherboard manufacturer only or otherwise it is also recommended as a general. My question is how much space to keep free and whether it is to be kept as a partitioned or un-partitioned space.
the free space is normally kept as a D: partition (assuming that your regular hard drive partition is C:)
Most computer makers now put the recovery partition on the drive nowadays.
I would make a D: partition just big enough to place an image of your Operating system and essential files on it.
Advanced Hard Drive Data Recovery Part 1
New different material! This is a new video on advanced data recovery by Scott A. Moulton. This is from August 2007 at Defcon 15 on how to do your own hard drive recovery.
Duration : 0:9:18
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Tags: crashed, data, drive, Hard, Moulton, platter, recovery, replacement, Scott | 
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How much does a professional forensic hard disk recovery cost?
To recover some files that have been deleted, how much would it cost for someone to get them back?
I know it can be done with free tools, I just want to know how much it would be for a company to do it.
They charge a lot of money for this! i would say they would rip you off at £100 or more. If your lucky under a 100
Hard Drive Data Recovery – Western Digital Head Swap
http://www.acsdata.com ~~~WARNING~~~ ****THIS IS NOT AN INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO**** There are key steps and some proprietary information that has been edited out. This is also only a 10 minute video, where just the head swap alone can take well over an hour depending on the drive. We also don’t show our method for aligning the heads on this particular model.
This video was originally produced because many of our customers were simply curious, or ill informed about what is done to physically repair a hard drive for recovery. This video is not intended to make you think swapping heads is easy. This video is not intended to make you think you can do it yourself. In 99% of this cases, if you attempt this on your own, even within a clean room environment, you will probably lose your data for good.
Also, just because your drive is clicking, does not necessarily mean the heads are bad. Proper diagnosis is key with doing data recovery correctly. Most lower level companies will just try to swap the heads, when it may be a PCB or firmware issue. When the head swap doesn’t work, they will say your data is unrecoverable. We get drives like that in every week, where a customer has been told the heads are bad, when they weren’t. So just because your drive is clicking, there maybe something more to it, but you won’t have the proper equipment needed to verify this or not and neither will a lower end data recovery firm.
The simple message here is, if your data is critical, make absolutely sure you let a professional data recovery firm do the recovery. Even if you have no desire at all to send a hard drive to us for recovery, PLEASE shop around, do your homework on the industry and ask for solid references from the company you do choose. If they are local, maybe even stop by their offices just to check them out first. There are literally thousands of companies out there that say they do this type of work, but VERY few actually do. If they say they can do a physical recovery for $199, you might want to keep shopping. The parts alone can be more than that. In most cases, a physical recovery is going to run anywhere from $600 to $1,500+ depending on the size of the drive, and the type of failure that has occurred.
http://www.acsdata.com
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