[TriLUG] OT: hard drive recovery

[Carl Schaefer]

> I have a 80GB Seagate SATA drive out of a MacBook.  It's  has decided
> to start clicking.  It has a couple of years worth of photos and
> documents on it.  I may seek out a recovery service -- DriveSavers has
> quoted me 500-1800 based on success.  Has anyone had success with any
> less expensive companies?  I'm not complaining about 500, but 1800 on
> the high end is a bit steep.

I sent a disk to http://www.gillware.com/ and was satisfied with the
result.  You can decide whether to pay or not based on how the recovery
goes.  Their price for a FAT or NTFS recovery is pretty low, but I think
a Mac filesystem recovery would cost more.
Carl