<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">If it's in bad enough shape that Tekserve can't help, then the drive most likely needs to be physically disassembled in a clean room and the data manually read from the platters in the drive. That's a pretty expensive process because it requires the clean room and specialized equipment. I haven't looked in a couple of years, but before that the best price I could find for that kind of service was approximately constant for a few years at about $700. <DIV><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I wish I could recommend a particular company to do the recovery. I've never been able to afford to get it done when I needed it, so I don't have any good advice about which company to use. Good luck with it. I hope that either her drive isn't completely dead yet or if it is, that this kind of service is cheaper these days. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-Patrick</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 4, 2007, at 3:29 PM, forest mars wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Can anyone make a recommendation of someone who specialises in Apple data (hard drive) recovery?<BR><BR>A friend has a zonked out HD and I don't want to get sucked into doing it, esp. since TekServe already told her they couldn't help her. <BR><BR>Also is there an alternative to TekServe (not counting TAS, obviously) that offers reliable reasonable Mac service?<BR><BR>cheers, <BR><BR>Forest M <BR><BR><BR> <BR><BR>-- <BR>"In theory, theory and practice are exactly the same. <BR>In practice, they're completely different."<BR>------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>Switch to Name.Space: <A href="http://namespace.org/switch">http://namespace.org/switch</A> <BR>Support new domains & keep free media free! Register yours today!<BR><A href="https://secure.name-space.com/registry">https://secure.name-space.com/registry</A><BR><BR>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<BR>Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version)<BR><BR>iQA/AwUBRkjTLDbz7LySoccvEQJDcQCguZZj4M4kOVOlOX4CtbgR0rppsdovAjra<BR>3RRXIlkdzuYI0YJz4WyvKlTn<BR>=MLhk<BR>-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- <BR><BR><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">macosx-unix mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:macosx-unix@lesmuug.org">macosx-unix@lesmuug.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://beth.lesmuug.org/mailman/listinfo/macosx-unix">http://beth.lesmuug.org/mailman/listinfo/macosx-unix</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>